Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

this was nice to read after having that steak last night...
and why I eat more salmon burgers now than beef.

Red and processed meat linked to heart disease, mega study says

Eating beef, lamb, pork and processed meats will increase your risk of coronary heart disease later in life, but poultry doesn't appear to raise risk, the largest review of all large-scale studies to date revealed.

www.cnn.com

 

[wngsprd]

69 going to 92 with the 3 H's. Sky just looks thick. At least it doesn't smell like smoke like RNG and others have has to deal with.

Mr and Mrs Phil, hope you have a wonderful celebration today of the love you pledged many years ago.

Don, I also keep hearing about the "surge" in C virus cases, but never see any numbers. Seems like we used to get flooded with data and numbers...some news sources displaying them continuously, prominently, almost proudly. I admit I haven't looked at much news lately, so I guess I'll dig around to see what I can find.

I know the Blue Origin space launch yesterday was just a repeat of what Alan Shepard did 60 years ago, but I found myself glued to the TV watching it. It was like sci fi to see a rocket ship return to earth and land back on its legs like a reverse of the takeoff.

Finally got to cleaning out my truck. Used the shop vac for over 2 hours and still have some dog hair...not that I really mind...nice reminder. Never found any sign of mice, so maybe the one I caught was a brand new illegal alien.

 

[Thomas]

67F cloudy sky slight chance of passing shower mid 70's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Had nasty nasty storm around 9pm enough so kittens hid looks like lawn etc. clean up today.
Plans for today...trip to town for critter food couple goodies,lawn etc. clean up,was going to trim mow front field but water setting on the ground so that's cancel so it's a putter day.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Thomas]

Phil...wish many many trips around the to you and your bride hand and hand.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good afternoon all. The day started out with a thick mist when we took a stroll up to the top pond to feed the fish with a few crusts. My wife heard a steam train in the distance and we waited in anticipation. Usually the sight and sound of those majestic old machines is really impressive, not so much this morning when all the steam and smoke are lost in wannabe clouds.

birds were chattering away so loudly they woke me up this morning. A fine alarm clock.

We had that too Drew, what sort of birds woke you up ? In our case it was 3 swallows that had perched on the roof window directly above us. Their chattering sounded very pleasant, although I soon closed the window in case any were tempted to fly poop circuits around the bed as happened a few years ago.

 

[Eric Salop]

All 3 hay fields baled yesterday.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 70F @ 5:00AM. Sunny. High 98F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
The smoke cleared early yesterday and it stayed nice outside all day. The fire cloud didn't poke its ugly head over the skyline, but the number of helicopters and airplanes in the air just keeps increasing. Maybe they're doing some good: The fire only gained a couple thousand acres yesterday. But many Evacuation Warnings went to full on Mandatory Evacuations in the area of Lake Almanor.

No leaks overnight, so the open trench inspection of the lines is on for today. I tried to use the county website to set it up, but couldn't get it to work, and the automated phone system was on the fritz, too. Finally got through to a real person and got it scheduled.

Pulled the drive shaft out of the red bike yesterday, and the u-joint is shot. There's a rebuilder not far from here, but he's booked up until October. Gonna make some measurements today, and if they pan out right, I'll see if I can get the parts and do the work myself.

Second try at ordering CAT5e wire pooped out yesterday. More supply line issues with China. Maybe things aren't as rosy over there with CV19 as their government sez?

This shot of the pyrocumulonimbus cloud over the Dixie Fire popped up on Facebook yesterday. This crew had pulled back from the fire line under threats that the cloud was on the verge of collapse.

Several new fire starts yesterday had planes and equipment diverted from the big fires to control them while they were still small. Yesterday's report about PG&E said it took over 10 hours for the first responders to get to the Dixie fire start.

Hump Day already. Where does the week go?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 74 and going to 80 with thunderstorms likely today.

Yesterday was interesting, the sky was obscured by a thick haze, I’m guessing it was high altitude smoke from fires in Canada and the west. The air quality was poor. I did get all the mowing done as I had hoped, even ran the old Honda string trimmer. No sign of the grandson though, his mom had him out and about.
Neighbor came over with a shaft for me to press a bearing off and put a new one on to it. It laughed at the arbor press, but got scared when I moved it to the 50 ton hydraulic and moved without much fuss, other than a bang when it let go and started moving.

Today starts with a zoom meeting with the engineers for the Airport Authority, hopefully it will be productive. I’ve been to far too many meeting where minutes were kept, and hours were thrown away.
After that I’m going to look at the AC in a friends shop, then I’ll spend some time in my own cleaning and organizing.
UPS is supposed to bring me a Makita hedge trimmer today, after trimming with the Lazer yesterday, I know a few spots that I’m going to test it on right away.

 

[psvfd]

Good Morning! 72 F at 7:30 and wet. Had over 2" rain last two days. Rather wet than hot like out west.
Took morning walk to put cracked corn for the turkeys and squirrels. Made the turn on trail and there stood ( 50 feet from me ) the young buck that hangs around since he was born. I have pictures of him growing and his antlers growing. Five point but first year. Around here maybe last! He needs to be more careful! Might get some dry weather for a couple days so I can mow the grass.

 

[toppop52]

this was nice to read after having that steak last night...
and why I eat more salmon burgers now than beef.

Red and processed meat linked to heart disease, mega study says

Eating beef, lamb, pork and processed meats will increase your risk of coronary heart disease later in life, but poultry doesn't appear to raise risk, the largest review of all large-scale studies to date revealed.

www.cnn.com

That’s not news to me, they’ve been saying such things for decades, but we love our cow.

 

[toppop52]

83 with poor air quality, small particulates and low level ozone. I decided to put off mowing until tomorrow even though it needs it now, hoping air will be better, I also have a doctor’s appointment early afternoon. I think I’ll just get the garbage out,move club trailer and cruise today.
Nice fish Ron.

BFF, my flag is about like yours, I’ve had new American made one for two months and haven’t gotten around to hanging it.

Have a good day.

 

[kenmbz]

Good morning all, smokey here , rain called for later.
Got my first green pepper from the garden,

Found out why my internet is flaky-seems cable from box to house has big signal drop.
Comcast is replacing at no cost to me. 100' and driveway cuts.

PopG-where minutes were kept, and hours were thrown away. Nice quote.


Stay safe and be well

 

[daugen]

yeah it's sure not new Randy but most of us struggle with eating properly and since I don't have Don's willpower,
I just have to keep choosing healthy over unhealthy as much of the time as possible.
That article again connected colorectal cancer with red meat diet.
I am convinced that's what did in my wife.

going to rain this afternoon but not too hot out now and thought I might go wash the car, it's been weeks.
I suppose I should wear a mask...when I look up at what should be bright blue sky and all I see is light grey, well
that's a lot of ash flying around. Yeah, think I'll wear a mask.

Is it a wive's tale or do rains "wash" the air and make it cleaner long term?
Of course then all the ash winds up on the ground.

I wonder what grows better with ash on it...or worse.

 

[MoKelly]

Well - potential big changes in our life. Wife decided she wants to “retire” and sell her interest in the tennis business.

It’ll probably happen by the end of August.

Then we will both be fully retired.

It’ll be an interesting transition given she has been at this type of stuff 15 years - the last 6 with me helping out and getting in the way.

Wish us luck!

MoKelly

 

[daugen]

that's very exciting Mo, congrats.
Now just think of all the possibilities that opens up

 

[PJSprog]

66°F and partly cloudy this morning with a hazy sunrise, going up to 90° today. Looks like we're back in the 90s every day for the rest of this month.

Got a piece of music equipment packed up Monday night, and dropped it off at a UPS Store on the way home from work yesterday. The cost to ship a 2.3 lb box to a guy in New York was $102.53. Ouch. It's a piece of electronic equipment - a hard to find bass preamp from the long defunct Pearce Electronics - that defined my bass sound for almost 20 years. It was in a basement flood just before I got married, and has been sitting ever since. It's demise is why I bought the Helix digital modeling processor, as it contains a model of that preamp. I decided I want to get it working again, and had a tech recommended to me by the famous bass player who the original preamp was designed for. The tech is the guy who originally designed the PC boards. I sent him an email with pictures, and he seemed to think it was quite repairable. I'm just hoping it's not going to cost me a kidney or something. That shipping though ... wow.

Happy Anniversary, Phil.

 

[daugen]

surprise greeting at door this morning

installed my LED strobe blinkers designed for bicyclist on back of new mower
so hopefully won't get run into when mowing right along the road. Pretty bright when on strobe.

washed the car, good exercise, now inside for afternoon in a/c and clean air. Happy to have MERV 13 filters all throughout
my hvac system.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .9 inches rain.

Something of a fractured day ahead. Sophie has a 30 day follow up with Ophthalmologist. A bit later appointment than usual. Will run a couple errands as well.

Hoping to get back and tape and mud my inside corners.

Makani turns 1 today. My little boy not so little but still not full grown

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[kenmbz]

Wow , time flies, happy birthday to Makani, so I see a dog bone with a bow

 

[RoyJackson]

Makani turns 1 today. My little boy not so little but still not full grown

I was looking for some pictures (photos) on my computer that my wife wanted to send to her daughter. Pics were from 2007-2008.
Anyway, during the search, I saw several pics of Makani when he was a little feller....so cute!!

Pics my wife wanted were of her daughter's ex-husband, sitting on a Deere 790, with an AK47 type rifle in each hand. I don't recall the circumstances or why we took the pictures...but there were 5 or 6 of 'em!!