Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Already 89°, heat index 102.
Looks like one of our outdoor kitties crossed the road one time too many, the cat population is dwindling around here.
I’ve been out moving trailers this morning, gotta repair a wire on one and put the tag back on that I found lying on the ground, no idea how. Now I have to get diesel fuel, gas and go to the bank and drugstore.

I’ve owned 144 vehicles of just about every domestic brand and type, but my imports consisted of. Renault Dauphine, it was worse than my 100000 mile Corvair, a Renault Caravelle “sports car” with the Gordini engine and both tops, and a Toyota Celica that I kept three weeks.

 

[MoKelly]

Already 89°, heat index 102.
Looks like one of our outdoor kitties crossed the road one time too many, the cat population is dwindling around here.
I’ve been out moving trailers this morning, gotta repair a wire on one and put the tag back on that I found lying on the ground, no idea how. Now I have to get diesel fuel, gas and go to the bank and drugstore.

I’ve owned 144 vehicles of just about every domestic brand and type, but my imports consisted of. Renault Dauphine, it was worse than my 100000 mile Corvair, a Renault Caravelle “sports car” with the Gordini engine and both tops, and a Toyota Celica that I kept three weeks.

Sorry about your kitty.

 

[PJSprog]

Nose still clogs up, but only with 20" bar, not the 18" ones.

Is the end radius different between the two bars? Maybe that's what's causing the material to bind up in there?

 

[kenmbz]

Is the end radius different between the two bars? Maybe that's what's causing the material to bind up in there?

Nose looks like the same radius. I am baffled.

 

[RoyJackson]

I’ve owned 144 vehicles of just about every domestic brand and type, but my imports consisted of. Renault Dauphine...a Renault Caravelle “sports car” with the Gordini engine and both tops,

Boy! You were really into self abuse, weren't you?

 

[RoyJackson]

A very comfortable 72° and lower humidity now...thank goodness!!!
Overcast though...that's the trade-off...
I can deal with that...

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .23 inches rain, raining.

The boxer boys have a vet appointment this morning. Semi annual check and shots update. Resupply of heart worm preventative.
Will go to HD and a bit of shopping.

This afternoon is our Hand and Foot game with cottage tenants. Expect an update from their big pow wow with their builder. Frustrated that very little work was accomplished last few weeks as builder juggled crew between projects.

Yes, those flail bearing bolts vibrated loose other end still tight. You can bet the new ones will get some loctite.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

73F and mostly cloudy @ 12:45, headed up to a high of 76F for the day.

0.41" of rain so far, following 0.52" yesterday. That constituted a pretty decent soaking ... which we needed.

Grass is starting to get long, particularly the part that I have gotten fertilized ... will start mowing later today once rain soaks in and it dries up a little.

Refilled hopper feeder yesterday, worked on getting on getting bed watering rig glued up, more to do on that today.

Ten Day Forecast is such that I will probably try and get the Weed-N-Feed put down on Saturday. That should give it several days to take effect before we get any more rain (likely next Wednesday)

Also have more spraying to do, plus all the rest of the stuff I haven't managed to get to.

Woman is out shopping right now, hopefully work haircut in after she gets back.

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

 

[kenmbz]

We all stopped using fertilizer on the grass here (at least most say they do), was messing up the streams and ponds quite a bit. How do you stop runoff where you are RS?

 

[daugen]

I had to chuckle Roy, after reading that my first thought also was geez Randy you had two of those?
Must have gotten lucky with the first one and not needed parts. Were either air cooled like vw?
First there was Gordini, then there was Abarth. Italians always wanted a hotter model.

yeah I dabbed my toe in the French River, bought the first year of the new R5 front wheel drive compact car they were importing in
1976. Very modern and hip and rubbery. Went from there to a gorgeous four door Nova II with a 305 V8, dark blue with factory chrome wheels.
With soft blue cloth upholstery that was so much nicer than the cold vinyls of the day. And from there on to a succession of insurance agent Buicks.
I really miss that cloth upholstery.

looks like a little clearing for an hour or two. Headed downtown to get gas can refilled and might stop and look at a new stove on the way home, I drive
right past the little mom and pop appliance store in Stockton NJ. Definitely looking for their no frills white one. But has to have self cleaning and solid top.
I wonder if they are unavailable due to chips too...
I don't want the stove with blue tooth, I just want a plain one so maybe I'll be ok.

Took the Volvo guy all of five minutes to see me trying to climb into XC90 with the driver seat all the way down and
my neck not bending to tell me simply you need a bigger opening, medium truck or larger. So no Volvo, though the seats were very nice.

 

[rswyan]

We all stopped using fertilizer on the grass here (at least most say they do), was messing up the streams and ponds quite a bit. How do you stop runoff where you are RS?

Not much in the way of real streams or ponds around the house here, although there is an area behind the house that is classified as one I guess (has a riparian set back, where you can't do anything within so many feet of it)

It's basically just seasonal and only really runs when there are heavy rains - mostly storm sewer/leach field runoff from the adjacent road/houses.

Started to pile old log debris from downed trees at the bottom of the property probably 15 years ago to form a dam for retention of runoff. Those efforts are ongoing.

I wouldn't be fertilizing, other than the fact that the condition of the grass had gotten so poor here, where weeds were really starting to take over. It probably hasn't seen any fertilizer or weed killer in 15 years.

The part I have fertilized is lush and thriving and the bare spots are starting to fill in, even without overseeding it.

Once it gets into good shape I'll probably try and keep up with the mowing better than I have in the past and reduce the fertilizer and weed killer use.

 

[rswyan]

top,

Sorry about your outdoor cat.

 

[rswyan]

RS, my wife just looked over my shoulder and saw your Zucchini pic.
She thought it was a pic I had just taken of the courgettes in her raised beds. If I hadn't said anything, she would be out there now with a hoe, trying to figure out where the emerging thistles had gone !

If she were here, she'd be trying to figure out where they had gone too - Woman went on a weed attack yesterday.

Now I just got to mulch it.

 

[PJSprog]

Took the Volvo guy all of five minutes to see me trying to climb into XC90 with the driver seat all the way down and
my neck not bending to tell me simply you need a bigger opening, medium truck or larger. So no Volvo, though the seats were very nice.

Nice of that guy to forego selling you a car in favor of giving good advice. Not a common practice in auto sales.

 

[RoyJackson]

...then there was Abarth. Italians always wanted a hotter model.

Abarths (either FIAT or Alfa Romeos) were actually pretty neat cars...quick too, considering the engines were normally under 1500cc. Most had a Weber carb and an Abarth free flow exhaust.
If built upon a stock body, they were pretty decent. Some were hand built bodies and they could be pretty crude...but fast!

 

[toppop52]

Boy! You were really into self abuse, weren't you?

I was 16-17.

 

[Bird]

The yard definitely needed mowing, even though I last mowed it just 4 days ago. So, first thing this morning, I mowed (with the bagger), edged, and trimmed because more rain is forecast; may or may not happen.

A couple of days ago, at the local 3 day a week farmers market in Denton, I bought some yellow pity pat squash (years ago I raised the white ones and have never seen them in a grocery store) and some green round zucchini (I'd never even heard of such a thing before; round zucchini). I also bought some fresh blackeyed peas that I shelled and put in the refrigerator when I got home day before yesterday.

Yesterday was a long day, got my daughter to the hospital before 5:30 a.m. and fortunately she was their first patient that day, so even the doctor showed up fairly early; did the hour and a half surgery on her foot, a little time in recovery (glad I took my new AARP Magazine to read since medical facilities don't have the reading material they used to have) and we got out of there very shortly after noon; stopped at What-A-Burger for burgers to take to her home, and got her home and settled. The doctor says 6 to 8 weeks before she can put any weight on that foot.

Anyway, my wife called her this morning and she says she's doing fine. She didn't like the crutches yesterday, especially getting up the stairs to the front door of her double wide mobile home (with me holding onto her, of course), but she said she can get around in the house very well with that one knee on the seat of her rollator. She has one of those special one leg roller gadgets ordered, but they said it would be 2 weeks coming.

And for a huge lunch today, we sliced, then fried pity pat squash AND round green zucchini, those fresh blackeyed peas that my wife started cooking earlier today, sliced onion, sliced tomatoes, and cornbread. I'm stuffed.

 

[toppop52]

Up to 95,, severe thunderstorm watch, pop up storms have already started.

Drew, why don’t you try the four door midsize trucks? Room of an suv with a bed, good ride quality, power and handling.

Of all the cars I’ve had my favorites were my 66 Tri Power, 4 speed GTO convertible, 68 GTX Hemi and my 67 Impala SS with the LT1/4L60E swap.
Two of those would easily fund my retirement. I also owned 11 Firebirds ranging from ‘67 400 to ‘89 Formula 350 and a lot in between, sometimes two at a time. I was really into them in the 70’s and 80’s. I’ve had several nice Mopars as well. Now all we have is 70 El Camino and it’s going to the restoration shop in August for a 3-5 month restoration and update.

My absolute favorite daily driver hands down was my 96 two door Tahoe. I kept it until 2015 and wish I hadn’t sold it.

 

[LouNY]

You may find this hard to believe but in recent years the easiest car (SUV) that I have had was a Suzuki SX4.
It was a small sedan that had a slightly raised driving height and awd.
The doors were quite large and the footwell opening was long and flat made the car easy to enter and exit,
You could sit into and stand up out of it. No falling in and having to claw and climb your way out.
Traded that to make my wife happy in about 3 months she was wishing to have it back.
But like most things it seems if I find it useful practical and versatile it goes off the market.
When my father was getting towards the end of his life it was a vehicle that he could get into and out off,
and whoever was taking care of him could take it out and about on the farm and field roads so he could see
what was going on. All the pickups were to high and the other various SUV's to difficult to twist and contortion
into and out of.

 

[Thomas]

74F cloudy chance of over night rain...yep need the rain.
So far to was 100% putter day,this evening should be even slower.

Enjoy your evening all.