Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all.
much warmer day today, going up to near 80 in showers with more rain tonight.

Bird, I read some of the reviews from EGO owners of that zero turn in Texas, seems they have sold a bunch
of them there. Very positive reviews. Would be nice if they offered a discount on last two batteries with purchase of mower...

not a good night last night, shoulder really bothered me, had to take some pain pills again. Whole arm is turning black and blue; they must have bent
me around while I was knocked out and apparently I now bruise more easily. I think that started when I was put on baby aspirin every day. Whole arm is black and blue and yellow
down to elbow. Hopefully trip tomorrow to surgeon will give some post op answers to questions going forward.
I took a pic of the arm to send to family, they email me every day keeping up with me (which is nice...) but can't post it here, shows my underwear...
electrical inspectors come this morning, will be nice to get that ugly sign off my front door. And nice to have at least one window unit for today.

 

[daugen]

sad to hear of Bill and Melinda Gates getting divorced. They did so much good together, hope it continues.
well, you can sure tell by the Bezos's and the Gates, money doesn't buy happiness. Except for divorce attorneys.

 

[wngsprd]

63 and some ground fog just rolled through. I think the NWS forecast is wrong...says 91 today. We just had ice in the birdbath and frost about 10 days ago.

BEF, glad the tornado stayed away.

David, always amazes me how big your private utility is...looks like more switches and controls than a rocket ship.

Randy, can't remember if you've tried Mission BBQ, but they have a Carolina vinegar sauce that's real good (don't tell BEF, but it's not nearly as good as in Eastern NC).

Rained off and on all day yesterday, but only 0.20...but kept me inside most of the day working on paperwork and cleaning out some files.

 

[Thomas]

44F light rain low 50's for high more steady rain later tonight.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...town for critter food and some slow motion puttering.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 70F @ 4:00AM. Abundant sunshine. High 92F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
The Red Flag Warning is supposed to expire at 5 PM today, as the wind dies down and humidity returns to more normal levels. The 10-day doesn't show any relief to the above normal temps, though.

Did some wire tracing and found everything hooked up OK, but the circuit board contacts where the lamps for the dash display, for which I'd substituted green LEDs, were tarnished. Touched them up with a pencil eraser, and now they all work. Also found a new leak on the decoupler, where the position sensor mounts. Took it off, cleaned the threads, then used Loctite 5900 to fix the leak. It had started to harden inside the syringe type applicator, so had to dig it out with a tiny spatula. Fingers crossed it works as well as it has on the oil pan gasket, which was bone dry.

Years ago I made up a large plywood bin for wood scraps and put it on casters so it would roll easily under the work bench in the garage. Those casters had steel wheels and for some reason never rolled very easily. Once the bin filled up, it was like playing tug-of-war with the Devil to move the bin in and out. A while back I purchased new casters with plastic rollers, and they've been sitting on a table ever since. Yesterday was they day they finally got installed, and what a relief!

But when I moved the bin out from under the bench, it was clear that all the metal working for the steel pallets had made a real mess all over the garage. So I spent the rest of the afternoon with a broom and dust pan sweeping. All except around the horizontal bandsaw, which I'll be using today to cut rebar to length to mark the wooden survey stakes that were put in back in '19. Another job that's spent too much time in the queue, that I hope to get started on tomorrow once the RFW lifts. One of last year's wildfires was started from a spark by someone pounding in a steel stake, and I don't want to be that guy this year.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

The other day I surprised a gray fox sniffing at the shipping container door. I hear it barking in the night, so it was unusual to see it in mid day. It barked at me before it ran off; probably wasn't happy to be caught out like that.

The deer were back under the solar panels yesterday, laying right on top of the deer repellent I'd spread the day before. Maybe I'm supposed to wet it down? I'll have to dig up the instructions, or maybe file for a refund.

Both lizards are now climbing up my leg to beg for a meal worm, even when I don't have any. That'll be interesting once I start wearing shorts again...

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp is 40 and high 46°F. Wind E 16 gusting to 26 mph. On and off rain all day.

Off to Burks Falls for a plastic repair kit. My plastic drum roller has developed a leak, it is cracked from the axle outwards about 2". I did order a steel drum roller 2 years ago and haven't heard anything about it, yet. So I have to hazard a guess that the people that I ordered through don't want my business.
If I wasn't so cheap I would get a self propelled steel drum sidewalk roller for asphalt.

Had my mother not died in 1988 she would have been 99 yesterday. Dads' 99th birthday would be coming up on June 4th, but alas he is dead too. No more worries, no more pain. The way I look at death and dead people I know is that if you remember them and speak of them occasionally then in your heart they are not dead.
So much for that morbid subject.

I got my laptop all updated and ready to rock 'n roll for the summer yesterday, that took all day. The battery was almost flat. Most of the time was for charging the battery, then let the updates download through the PC. That was a good rainy day job.

Ron, a sure sign that you need to put out more suet cakes is when the birds are lining up.

DIL is still alive and kicking, but she IS going down hill, just not as quick as her Dr. said she would. She is using the wheelchair more in the house than she did before.


Have a safe day all

 

[ronjhall]

I end up having to reset the stop when I go from one side to the other. I'd be interested in making that mod on mine, Ron, if you could share a photo or two...

Here is a picture. Not sure it shows much.

 

[Looking4new]

RNG, sounds to me like you need to make a post pounder out of some 1" galvanized pipe or which ever size you have on hand. that would eliminate the sparks when a glancing blow is hit on the rebar with a hammer.

 

[toppop52]

Randy, can't remember if you've tried Mission BBQ, but they have a Carolina vinegar sauce that's real good (don't tell BEF, but it's not nearly as good as in Eastern NC).

Of course not, it’s like brisket in TX.

I’d like to step back in time and get one from the old Tuck’s BBQ. While I’m there I might as well cruise the drive in circuit one last time. The town is there but the time is long past.

 

[toppop52]

The other day I surprised a gray fox sniffing at the shipping container door. I hear it barking in the night, so it was unusual to see it in mid day. It barked at me before it ran off; probably wasn't happy to be caught out like that.

The deer were back under the solar panels yesterday, laying right on top of the deer repellent I'd spread the day before. Maybe I'm supposed to wet it down? I'll have to dig up the instructions, or maybe file for a refund.

Both lizards are now climbing up my leg to beg for a meal worm, even when I don't have any. That'll be interesting once I start wearing shorts again...

Just be sure they know which meal worm is which!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 52 with a high of 78 expected. Possible thunderstorms this evening.

Yesterday’s trip was more of an adventure than it needed to be. Trip southbound was typical, but the return wasn’t. We usually come straight up over the Atlantic, making landfall around Wilmington,NC, and that was the clearance we received, heading northeast to join an Atlantic route. About 100 miles off shore they shut down the overwater routes and turned us back inland to follow the coast northeast. The irony was that the majority of the weather was inland. Here’s what it looked like.

At any rate we got to where we were going and were less than a half hour behind schedule, was able to over or around weather, so while it was frustrating, I guess I shouldn’t whine.

More speaker orders, so I’ll be in the shop today and the rest of the week. One of the perks of the sort of traveling that I’ve done, is that I’ve gotten to see a lot of North America, and I’ve taken a lot of pictures along the way. Here’s one of the approach to Aspen, CO. If you look hard, you can see the runway.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, no tornadoes like BEF, wind is certainly gusting strong though, stripping lots of new fresh green leaf off the oak trees.

Jackdaws are appreciating the rain showers, it seems to improve their chances of finding a tasty grub when they flick over dried sheep poop. One of them kept looking up at me each time it walked to a new potential snack, almost as if it was inviting me to guess if there would be anything underneath.

RNG Not sure how much rebar you will have sticking out of the ground, if it is a short piece you could consider welding a short piece of bar horizontal across the top to make it more noticeable - kinder too in case someone should ever fall on it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Here is a picture. Not sure it shows much.
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Thanks, Ron. I think what I see there is that you've ground a step in the nose of the positioning finger. Does the bulge on the left side of the finger contact the teeth that point in the other direction?

 

[toppop52]

70 headed to 87 today, some cooler days late week.

Plan is to mow grass today and maybe spray, but that might be another day depending on my stamina.

Nurse was just here to check me out, I must be feeling better because I noticed she was kind of cute!

Well I’d better see what I can get into, have a good day.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG Not sure how much rebar you will have sticking out of the ground, if it is a short piece you could consider welding a short piece of bar horizontal across the top to make it more noticeable - kinder too in case someone should ever fall on it.

The survey stakes are far enough apart to not be visible from one to the other, mainly because the ground is so steep. The surveyors suggested the rebar, sized so a piece of 3/4" PVC can be slipped over the 6" or so of rebar sticking out of the ground. The PVC is 10' long, tall enough to be seen from the stakes before and after it. The wooden stakes, which stick up about 18", will remain in place. But I've already noticed that some of them are leaning, as if something has bumped into them. If someone falls on one of the rebars, they'd also be falling onto one of the wooden stakes, and they'd also be trespassing, right?

I like the idea of a stake pounder, Bill, just not sure pipe would strike a heavy enough blow. Might have to weld a chunk of steel to the end to beef it up. We'll see what the scrap bins have to offer. Thanks!

 

[MoKelly]

Morning all.

Woke up to rain and low 60’s. Supposed to stay that way much of the day.

It’ll be an inside day for me and my wife and the kitty.

I tried to get the kitty to like me more yesterday while my wife was at work. It was good - he crawled up on my chest and let me pet him. He even did his roll thing so I’d rub his belly.

I was feeling good.

Then, my wife gets home and comes inside and kitty jumps off me and runs to her meowing like she’d been gone a month!!

Of well - at least I’m #2. Don’t ask if there is a #3.

Have a safe one today.

MoKelly

 

[Bird]

Have all of you in the USA received a letter from President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in the past week? Just yesterday, May 3, 2021, we got a letter from the:

Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Austin, TX 73301-0003

It's a letter with a "NOTICE DATE: APRIL 22, 2021" (took 10 days to get here????).

So President Biden says, "I am pleased to inform you that because of the American Rescue Plan, a direct deposit of $2800 was issued to you by direct deposit. If you haven't received your payment within 7 days of receiving this letter, please check the status of the payment by visiting the IRS website or calling the IRS phone number listed at the bottom of this page."

My first thought was "we're getting another pandemic bonus" but then I realized it was just trying to get a little more credit for something that happened way back on March 17 of this year.

I wonder how many people will be waiting and expecting another bonus.

 

[daugen]

If someone falls on one of the rebars, they'd also be falling onto one of the wooden stakes,

next vampire movie RNG will be starring as RNG The Impaler

brother just left, had to ask for help to change bandages but showered, shaved and dressed

Dressings they sent me home with required surgical tape which I didn't have so brother picked up some big
bandaids on way over here. Nice that he is so close.
He took his Corvette to a Cars and Coffee meeting on Sunday across from Peddlers Village. He expected 35 cars.
It was a nice day and over 300 cars came, they had real parking challenges. Wide variety of cars including a new
Bugatti Chiron.

 

[ronjhall]

Thanks, Ron. I think what I see there is that you've ground a step in the nose of the positioning finger. Does the bulge on the left side of the finger contact the teeth that point in the other direction?

Correct on the bulge. Looking at picture it looks like it has worn some since I modified it many years ago. I bought it used from a shop that was going out of business. I use a brown fiber type grinding wheel. Only take light cuts. Going around chain several times if needed. I can change direction of wheel to leave minimal burr.