Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #136,001  
I bet David's caretaker job description would be a dream for someone.

Fun lunch out with brother, restaurant short on staff, everyone seems short on staff it seems.

I drove his Corvette home, oh my. My ears are still ringing and my bad shoulder now hurts from pulling with all my strength
on that manual everything car. No power brakes, no power steering, I could barely park the car.
Then at one stop sign I wound up in reverse instead of first. That got exciting as I wide eyed stabbed on the brake pedal which felt
like a big slab of wood. Apparently the lockout in reverse doesn't lock out too well...

I liked his 1960 black Corvette convertible better, much easier to drive. This 1965 had at least 4.11 gears and maybe lower.
I think he's going to start looking for E class AMG's, something comfortable his wife will go places with him with.
He told me I was one of the few people who could drive this car, and I did ok but not great. You sit super low with a thin steering wheel and
a car that darts all over the road. I don't know if it had a stock cam but it loaded up easily at low revs with that wonderful lumpity lump sounds.
The Audi felt like a Rolls driving home, not that I honestly know what the latter feels like.

81 and cloudy out.

time to work very hard at doing nothing
 
   / Good morning!!!! #136,002  
200 lbs of Weed-N-Feed applied to lower front.

Hopper and two sunflower tube feeders refilled. Also one suet feeder (now out of suet cakes until pick up of Menards order)

Another piece of pvc glued.

Well on way to having northwest planting bed mulched:

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   / Good morning!!!! #136,004  
70F slight breeze more clouds than sun.

Well the morning didn't as we both hope for the log cabin project,seems the beaver dam has more water than it can handle culver can't keep up good foot water over the road also wash out,looks like next week sometime we will give it another try.
Afternoon mow the lawn than decided to mow the front field,it was double the work also mowing time because the field was on the wet side only left 1 rut to fill in.

Not much plan for the evening other than numbing it. ;)

Enjoy your evening all.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #136,005  
63°, Beautiful weather today didn’t get to start mowing till after 7 tonight, so only 3/4 done. Son said he’d mow front tomorrow. I did along creek, 3/4 of field & back yard.
Did eat a few wild blackberries along the field. Was getting too dark to get a good pic.
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   / Good morning!!!! #136,006  
64F and "Fair" @ 22:00, headed down to an overnight low of 56F.

Got mulching done on northwest planting bed then Woman decided they needed water (they in fact did not "need" water ... :LOL:) ... but the WB was right there and had some in it, so we went ahead and started watering. Of course it wasn't enough ... so I had to drag it around back and partially refill it.

While I was doing that she went in and put dinner in the oven (porkchops and scalloped potatoes)

Once I got the WB as full as I wanted it, and pulled it around with the Cub and then took the compostables up to the pile with Kubota and buried them.

After that did some soil screening until I noticed she was back out at the planting bed so I ran down to help her with the watering.

Once we got the plants all watered we headed up to the shop and weeded the back side.

At some point I got hungry enough and she got tired enough that we agreed to head down for dinner.

Hope everyone had a great day ... (y)
 
   / Good morning!!!! #136,007  
Got the grass mowed and trimmed today. Bought a 4.4 cu ft counter top fridge with no freezer today, going to use it strictly for drinks, milk, juice, water, etc…

Electrician will be here tomorrow to install the RV hookup, RV will be here this weekend. Going to use it for overflow next weekend and then a trip to the Outer Banks Labor Day week. I hope we use it enough to justify it.

Going to try to remove the deck from the tractor tomorrow, replace the belt, service it and out it away for emergency use.

It’s been a long day, good night guys.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #136,008  
Good evening all. 67F for the start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind today, some cloud build ups, and high temp was 90F HI 96F, DP 66F. Bike ride this morning, conserved energy and napped this afternoon. Grilled brats for dinner, and worked on wife's laptop tonight, battery is showing bad :( and it is out of warranty.
Covid update: Cooke 3262 confirmed cases, 24 active cases, Montague 1814 confirmed cases, 18 active cases, Grayson, 11631 confirmed cases, 121 active cases.
Ron glad you got mowing done and cooler weather to work in. Thanks for the reply and nice pic
Roy don't overdo it. When you get winded take a breather. Wife's blood O2 level can fall fast as lungs not pulling in O2 as good as they used to.
Drew hope water filter install went well. Hope you brother liked his cigars. Thanks for info on asphalt sealers.
Billy good to hear walking getting better. Cedars are very invasice and not welcome very many places
Eric I understand, humidity hits harder than heat. nice pic
Dom I turned mine back on as well, more normal summer weather pattern. Hope you found some seat time in the gardens
Paul congrats on feeling retired, and your wife's upcoming retirement.
Dennis glad laptop has returned to the land of the living. Big boy coming though Texas as well, Aug 13 will come within 6 mile of house. Hope you survived your day
RNG glad inspection over hope the wire comes in. Pray that fire does not come closer.
Rene hope you can get your mowing done.
RS good to hear rebuild worked. Hope you made a dent on the list
PJ hope you can get mowing done without sweating your anatomy off.
Ken you will be missed
David hope care taker pans out for you good luck with H&F
Drew driving the beast sounds like fun :)
RS nice progress and pic
Thomas sorry about unable to get to cabin, glad you were able to get some work done around house.
Dennis glad you survived the day after short sleep. nice pic
RS sounds like a good day
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Bird/aging issues/, Billy/surgery recovery,Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies cancer surgery, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Dennis/older brother/son, Grev/wife's eye, Do niece/son/Covid, Bill/DIL home care, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, Drew/tendon healing, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery,RNG/fire season, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #136,009  
good morning all
nice sunny summer day here, highs in mid to upper 80's.
My day had been planned to help my aging MIL do change of address work before she
goes into retirement home, but they cancelled last night, so looks like I have a nice day to myself.
Going to mow the lawn and then clean and grease the mower.

Toppop, what kind of rv did you get?
 
   / Good morning!!!! #136,010  
Poured first cup of coffee. 62° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 75° with thunderstorms in afternoon. Did all the house cleaning and shrub trimming yesterday. Grocery shopping this morning. Then a small get together in afternoon.
I thought there was just one doe and her 2 fawns visiting my lily garden. There was 2 does and 3 fawns yesterday. When I went to take a picture they all headed out into the field. I caught this one with camera.
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Randy, what did you get for a RV? Make sure Electrician wired outlet properly. Many mistakes are made when wiring a RV plug for 30 amp. It should be 120 volts AC. Not 220. Plugs look similar. 50 amp not so many mistakes.

RNG, hope they get fires under control.

Buckeye, good picture. Glad computer is up and running.

Drew, how hard can a Vette be to drive. :rolleyes: Last one I had was in late 60's. I was 28 then. It was a dream to drive.

Ken, great picture. Hurry back.

PJ, hope you some mowing done. So you can have the weekend free.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.
 

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