Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

txdon said, "We went out to eat, the first time since last year, at a Mexican grill - Chipotle's - they did not have any onions or peppers, they really don't belong in Texas with no peppers and onions. I did find out I'm a much better Chef."

The only time I've eaten anything at Chipotle was in the dining court of a shopping mall some years ago. It wasn't BAD, but it sure wasn't good enough to ever try again or to ever visit one of their restaurants.

 

[txdon]

Don, congrats on Hand & Foot. We’ll have to compare notes as I suspect we play same game but different ways. For us we meld at 50, 90, 120, 150, 120, 90, & 50 points, so that takes us a couple hours.

We play 5 games, melds at 50, 90, 120, 150, 150. The two winners at the table are the ones that go out first. They advance to the next table the losers stay at the table but move so they are not partners again. You never play with the same partner more than once. Since winners are the first to go out the points are secondary are are used to break ties of the winners for ranking at the end of the 5 games. Sundays are the play for fun, (ranked for only that day). Mondays are the serious ranking games. We are ranked every 3 months by total wins and ties broken by highest score.


Good morning! Cloudy, warm and breezy. 72˚F, 88% humidity, Wind 6mph.

The grass really went on a growing spurt after the rains and I'll have to raise the blades to level 4 (out of 5) on the EGO when I cut it today.

 

[check]

Good morning! Poured first cup of coffee - very tasty this morning. 42 this morning and pretty well the same temp all day, and rain, rain, rain pretty well all week. Good thing we planted the wife’s 2 trees yesterday. (She got me moving to finally take the rear blower off and instal the backhoe for the season - couldn’t dig up and plant the trees without it.)

This week will be indoor work, including getting the rental property ready for our first renters. And wow - it will be close to or at freezing every night until the weekend, and even after that it will be another week before it even gets up to the mid-forties!

Nice to see you back, Ron - keep up the lovely pics!

Sad to hear about all the health issues - prayers and best wishes to all!

 

[toppop52]

I got a bowl at chipotle Thursday after my 2nd COVID vaccine. They still doing only takeout, dine in still closed. They had peppers and onions, yum. it was so good.

I usually go to Moe’s, but not much different.

 

[kenmbz]

Mornin all, warm and calling for rain- got to 87 yesterday.
Got 4 fields mowed, tomato plants transferred and the lower field cleared after another 30 foot Ash branch fell.
Used the tractor to condense my brush pile down as the older section has broken down quite a bit.

Went to my wife's old high school Saturday as my sons friends band was playing at their food truck festival.

and then Sunday afternoon trying to get my wife's phone fixed to no avail.
The wife also bought more plants for me to put in, trying to keep me busy.

And he best news-fired the foaming wasp killer on the bald hornet nest from my bedroom window, and next day, no more wasps. Easier then getting rid of the yellowjackets over my back door last year!

Wngsprd - Coco is feeling better, great news!

For the aerator, two cement bricks-and store outside under tarp- is 7 years old- for lube-spray some silicon lube on spindle and work it in for tines and moves well and does not looks like it is wearing. use 2 x year.

Hummingbird feeder-1/2 cup white sugar-2 cups water boiled- they seem happy with this

Drew - no chair racing - glad you didn't get hurt. I have 2 old simplicities- one has issues with the torsion bar. The other I use to mow the rough fields which are being converted to grass.

Ron - welcome back, missed your morning update and pictures-glad you are ok

PopG - safe travels

Lots to do this week besides planting- the honeysuckle is over the road so the hedge trimmer and pole saw will get a workout!
Still need to find time to change the oil in the tractor, and so much more

Stay safe and be well.

 

[wngsprd]

Buppies, hope things get better with the doctor's changes.

 

[toppop52]

73 with scattered showers, headed to 80.
I wanted to either mow or spray weeds today but the rain kinda quashes that notion. We need rain though so I’m not complaining.
Buppies, I hope they get your meds right, my kidney function sucks but nobody has ever mentioned a medication directly for the kidneys, just regulate other meds to protect them as best I can.

Guess I better get a plan for today. Have a good one.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 65F @ 7:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 89F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.
The humidity is already down in the low 30s now, and is supposed to drop down into the teens this afternoon. As long as winds remain out of the north, the humidity will stay low and we'll be under the Red Flag Warning.

Wind was already blowing at 7AM yesterday, so I let the tractor sleep and started in with the front differential installation on the VW Vanagon. It was breezy under there, enough that I kept losing my hat. It was a tight fit getting it into place, but with enough wiggling, I finally got it in. Also found all the hardware, which was a relief. Verified that the locker works, but the idiot light on the dash doesn't. Hope it's something simple like swapped wires, so that's job 1 for today.

Not sure what I'm gonna do with the crate the rebuilder made for the diff. He really did a nice job; it's almost furniture quality. If I put hinges and a latch on the lid, it might make a nice bench with storage. And now that I think about it, when I put the backhoe back on the tractor, I'll need a place to put the 3 point and top'n'tilt hardware. A HF furniture dolly under there would make it easy to move. Hmmm...

New pole saw is on it's way to the local Home Depot, but no word on the permit for the water tank. It's going on three weeks now.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

When I first started feeding hummingbirds, I picked up a couple books on them at Amazon. That's where the cup a quart recipe for nectar came from, but they also helped me figure out that Anna's were the most frequent visitor. Just looked at my purchase history, and both books are now selling in the seventy-five dollar range, but used copies can be had for much less than that. So much for getting rich selling old books, huh?

Amazon.com

Amazon.com

The purchase history also shows I've bought eight feeders, but only have six left. So somewhere out there are two that have been stolen by the wind, and have successfully evaded capture. And it's not like I haven't looked. I was down to four this spring, and found two buried under long grass to the west of the house.

 

[PJSprog]

61°F and foggy with light rain this morning, going up to 82° today. More rain expected overnight tonight and into tomorrow.

I had what I consider a good weekend; parked the car in the garage when I got home from work Friday evening, and it didn't leave the garage again until I left for work this morning. I like those kind of weekends.

Got up Saturday morning and started into taking stumps down to ground level. The chainsaw wasn't too happy with that decision, and wasn't fully cooperating. I tried hand sharpening the blade, which helped some. Still not ideal. Thinking I'll pick up one of those blade sharpeners from Harbor Freight and give it a try. I got three and a half stumps done before calling it quits. The others will just have to wait. I did get some supervision along the south fence line, though, from a couple of the neighbors horses.

Moved the scattered remains in the burn pile into one pile. Tried to flip the tree with the root ball over into it with the bucket, and almost dragged the tractor over onto its side for my efforts when it wanted to fall to the side instead. That was a sobering moment. I left it where it fell for now.

The Wife had started mowing in the back yard with the zeroturn, so I jumped on the rider and we tag-teamed the rest. Got everything mowed in just about three hours.

I had the intentions to get up Sunday and go to work on the front yard. I wanted to core aerate, over-seed, and apply some weed-n-feed. Forecast said no rain until about 4pm, but the radar said otherwise. I got the aerator out, aired up the tires, and made one pass before coming to the conclusion that the cinder blocks just weren't pushing it deep enough. So, I hauled out four 50# bags of sand we had in the garage. That did the trick. After that, I got the broadcast spreader and started with the grass seed. I got the front yard seeded just as it started to rain ... about 10:30am. That pretty much ended my outside productivity for the day, as it rained on and off the rest of the day. Fortunately, it was just light rain, the kind you like to see after seeding.

Had to air up the left rear tire on the Husqy rider before mowing Saturday. I didn't see anything in it, and it was still OK Sunday morning. Need to keep an eye on that. It's The Wife's favorite for hauling around the small dump trailer when she's constantly changing the landscaping arrangement, or dragging around the sprayer (it was way too windy to do any spraying this weekend).

Welcome to the GM thread, Williy.

Good to see you posting here again, Ron. You were missed. Hope you are well.

We put a rear hitch plate on our Husqvarna zeroturn last year. The Wife found one on Amazon that said it would fit our specific model. It did not. Not even close to lining up with the pre-existing holes. Sent it back and ordered one from our Husqy dealer in Centralia IL. She originally wanted it on there to haul the sprayer around, but found it easier to steer the rider with one hand while spraying with the other. Not sure I'd want to stress the hydraulics on the ztr by pulling the aerator with it. Even the rider was groaning pulling it up one of the hills in the front yard.