Alien
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Picked up my Mustang today. Couldn't stop grinning all the way home.
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Eric Salop
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Good morning, just been out on what I am hoping is my last ragwort pulling session for this year. Fingers crossed the weather forecast will hold for haymaking to start tomorrow.
Those in the pic were Prunius avium which are edible for humans and tend to disappear as soon as they start to ripen. Unfortunately there are some similar looking berries that may have other effects too, so I leave all of them for the birds instead of playing a Russian roulette style game of "wholesome-cherry-or-diarrhoea "
I understand all cherries have the potential to be lethal, which is why you should never chew and swallow the stones inside because they can give you cyanide poisoning
Also had a "budgie jacket" ...
Wng, 2 hours with your new toy is a lot of grease - you must be moving pretty smoothly today
Those in the pic were Prunius avium which are edible for humans and tend to disappear as soon as they start to ripen. Unfortunately there are some similar looking berries that may have other effects too, so I leave all of them for the birds instead of playing a Russian roulette style game of "wholesome-cherry-or-diarrhoea "
I understand all cherries have the potential to be lethal, which is why you should never chew and swallow the stones inside because they can give you cyanide poisoning
I had platform boots but with only a low heel - at 6' tall I didn't really want a boost in height when the shorter girls always seemed the most attractive
Also had a "budgie jacket" ... Wng, 2 hours with your new toy is a lot of grease - you must be moving pretty smoothly today
txdon
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They seem to be doing OK. She sent a video via text of the baby giggling with flushed cheeks. She says she feels OK but still has no taste or smell. The DR. said that since the no taste or smell is unique to Covid19 they do not need too test her for any variants.
Good news about your son.
Drew, I'm jealous. I was getting ideas about the EGO Z when I walked past it at ACE hardware yesterday. The two things I do not like about the Z was the noise (running at full throttle) and the dust, but with my grass here there would be no dust and with the electric Z motor there is little noise. But that all it was, just an idea. Have fun mowing today.
Good morning! 74˚F heading to the low 90s partly cloudy skies.
This morning I am raising two water valves. The top of them are lower about 4" lower than the turf. I did not know one was there because it was buried but stumbled across it when I was looking for the cut-off during the shower repair. Since they are 6" round and next to each other I got one larger box that will go on top and will raise them level with the yard. That will stop that area from being a trip hazard.
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Good Morning!!!! 67F @ 5:45AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 94F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
It would be nice to open some windows and let the cool air in, but it's pretty smoky outside from the Dixie Fire. That'll be the pattern until they figure a way to put it out; the wind runs down canyon all night bringing the smoke with it.
Pretty frustrated with the mismanagement going on with this fire. Don't want to sound like a Monday morning quarterback, but when you won't spend the money for helicopters to move ground crews into position, then hesitate to spend even more money on heavy air support, money that wouldn't have been needed if the ground crews would have had an early shot, you need to be replaced with someone that has more experience. Yesterday in a few hours, the total of acres burned went from 500 to 1200 to 1500 then back to 1200 then shortly after that to 2200. How can you keep people safe when you can't even tell where the fire is? It's not like there's no way to tell; it's just a matter of a few mouse clicks. So far, the fire seems to be moving to the north and east, away from here. And the forecasts don't show any strong winds, so at least for now we don't have another Camp Fire on our hands. But the geography of the canyon is such that the potential is always there, and if you don't respect that, people lose their homes, livelihoods, and lives. The Sugar Fire is still burning away to the north, they're still issuing new evacuation orders, and it's another one where they thought they had it contained at just a few acres and it grew to over 200,000 acres in just a few days when the wind came up.
There was some good news yesterday when a Very Large Air Tanker pilot, on his way back to the fire after refueling, spotted a new start on the edge of Paradise town and put it out with three passes of his airplane. That guy deserves a medal!
Was still having trouble with the soft start yesterday when I decided to take everything off of the A/C unit, compare the factory wiring with the diagram that came with the soft start, and make my own diagram that looked like the parts I had in my hands and was labeled with the actual color of the wires I was working with. Followed my diagram and had it working in twenty minutes. And the UPSs have stopped clicking when the A/C starts. At three hundred bux pop, it's an expensive solution, and I hesitate to run out and buy more of them for every big electric motor here, but it might come to that. Maybe I can find them selling for less somewhere, now that I know what to look for.
I was gonna head out this morning for a camping weekend, but with the fire still going strong, I'm going to wait another day to see what happens with it. Air quality isn't that great, either, not much fun when you're in a tent.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!
It would be nice to open some windows and let the cool air in, but it's pretty smoky outside from the Dixie Fire. That'll be the pattern until they figure a way to put it out; the wind runs down canyon all night bringing the smoke with it.
Pretty frustrated with the mismanagement going on with this fire. Don't want to sound like a Monday morning quarterback, but when you won't spend the money for helicopters to move ground crews into position, then hesitate to spend even more money on heavy air support, money that wouldn't have been needed if the ground crews would have had an early shot, you need to be replaced with someone that has more experience. Yesterday in a few hours, the total of acres burned went from 500 to 1200 to 1500 then back to 1200 then shortly after that to 2200. How can you keep people safe when you can't even tell where the fire is? It's not like there's no way to tell; it's just a matter of a few mouse clicks. So far, the fire seems to be moving to the north and east, away from here. And the forecasts don't show any strong winds, so at least for now we don't have another Camp Fire on our hands. But the geography of the canyon is such that the potential is always there, and if you don't respect that, people lose their homes, livelihoods, and lives. The Sugar Fire is still burning away to the north, they're still issuing new evacuation orders, and it's another one where they thought they had it contained at just a few acres and it grew to over 200,000 acres in just a few days when the wind came up.
There was some good news yesterday when a Very Large Air Tanker pilot, on his way back to the fire after refueling, spotted a new start on the edge of Paradise town and put it out with three passes of his airplane. That guy deserves a medal!
Was still having trouble with the soft start yesterday when I decided to take everything off of the A/C unit, compare the factory wiring with the diagram that came with the soft start, and make my own diagram that looked like the parts I had in my hands and was labeled with the actual color of the wires I was working with. Followed my diagram and had it working in twenty minutes. And the UPSs have stopped clicking when the A/C starts. At three hundred bux pop, it's an expensive solution, and I hesitate to run out and buy more of them for every big electric motor here, but it might come to that. Maybe I can find them selling for less somewhere, now that I know what to look for.
I was gonna head out this morning for a camping weekend, but with the fire still going strong, I'm going to wait another day to see what happens with it. Air quality isn't that great, either, not much fun when you're in a tent.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!
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Morning all, pleasant and sunny so far.
Drew - congrats on the new mower - looks so nice and shiny, you need to fix that
David - adding more tension gave you less tension- that is strange but glad to heat your mower is working
RNG - good work on the soft start! hope the fires get contained and coordinated better.
We were supposed to have a dresser for the kid delivered last night. Never called, never showed.
tried calling left about 5 voicemails and finally got through to someone, who said, if they could not get to us by 8pm they probably just returned to the warehouse. uh, ok ??
Stay safe and be well.
Daddy's back
And a few thousand feet of wild rasperries for the wildlife to eat. One of the many below.
Drew - congrats on the new mower - looks so nice and shiny, you need to fix that
David - adding more tension gave you less tension- that is strange but glad to heat your mower is working
RNG - good work on the soft start! hope the fires get contained and coordinated better.
We were supposed to have a dresser for the kid delivered last night. Never called, never showed.
tried calling left about 5 voicemails and finally got through to someone, who said, if they could not get to us by 8pm they probably just returned to the warehouse. uh, ok ??
Stay safe and be well.
Daddy's back
And a few thousand feet of wild rasperries for the wildlife to eat. One of the many below.
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daugen
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Doug, keep on grinning.
Spent over an hour putting on a heavy coat of carnauba wax on the mower including the wheels. Best time to do it when they are nice and clean.
Then mowed the lawn , it did the best job of all the mowers so far, very pleased with result. And my shoulder still
feels ok.
Now to call plumber to come out and install an inline whole house water filter which is long overdue. Best part is I can grab
main line right after it T's off to the outside spigot line, so I only have to filter the inside water and not all the garden water.
I need to go get a sheet of plywood cut in half for a backer board for the double assembly.
Spent over an hour putting on a heavy coat of carnauba wax on the mower including the wheels. Best time to do it when they are nice and clean.
Then mowed the lawn , it did the best job of all the mowers so far, very pleased with result. And my shoulder still
feels ok.
Now to call plumber to come out and install an inline whole house water filter which is long overdue. Best part is I can grab
main line right after it T's off to the outside spigot line, so I only have to filter the inside water and not all the garden water.
I need to go get a sheet of plywood cut in half for a backer board for the double assembly.
kenmbz
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Drew-Don't forget the UV. Mine seems to work great, just replace the tube every year. Pre-filter to take out the big stuff, but no impact the water taste too much from the well.
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Nice!Doug, keep on grinning.
Spent over an hour putting on a heavy coat of carnauba wax on the mower including the wheels. Best time to do it when they are nice and clean.
Then mowed the lawn , it did the best job of all the mowers so far, very pleased with result. And my shoulder still
feels ok.
Is it time to update your avatar to something in green?
daugen
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no, not to worry, this is a lawn mower RNG, not a tractor so I'll stick to my Massey red avatar.Nice!
Is it time to update your avatar to something in green?
I hope to plant a couple of apple trees here so maybe it will still make sense.
Still might be a small chance down the road of having another tractor, kept at an old friend's farm nearby.
But for now
I remain
in between now