Good morning!!!!

daugen · Jul 27, 2021

Like in other GM models, Chevy will be temporarily giving Traverse customers a $75 discount
while models are being produced without a wireless phone charger due to the chip shortage.

this is the first time I've read something specific as to what chips are in short supply.
Wireless phone charger. Clearly a high demand item, found in even clock radios now.
Lack of chips is starting to have big impact on manufacturers, going to have drops in production this year and they won't
like that at all. Particularly when they are all investing hugely in EV and need the cash flow to continue.
I guess all those $80k pickups will provide much of that.

any of you been solicited for your used cars to buy them? I get almost weekly advertising in the mail.

Rich B1 · Jul 27, 2021

Good morning! 59 now, 86 or so later.

Haven’t posted much lately, last weekend was Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid Ohio Raceway. Was busy getting ready to go and was a busy 4 days at VMD. Not sure how far I walked, put 14 miles on my pit bike riding around. We raced at the vintage flat track Saturday night, entered 4 classes, won 4 classes.

The trailer wasn’t done, but was “functional”. It worked out. The extra room was much appreciated. Need to get the cabinets built and installed.

The supply chain issues are real and not improving Drew. In addition to shortages of chips, copper wire, etc., now steel is becoming very tight in supply. And the quality of components has declined dramatically.

Meant to post these last week, some more of the lillies around the house.

Everyone stay safe out there!

Buppies · Jul 27, 2021

Three times recently I have been approached to buy my Ram mega cabs are rare all three have offered what I paid for truck two years ago. Discounts are very low on new cars/trucks if you can find them. Glad I’m not looking

Buppies · Jul 27, 2021

Drew you should look at boats no inventory high prices if you can find one. I think when this washes out a lot of our country will be suffering

RedNeckGeek · Jul 27, 2021

Good Morning!!!! 76F @ 4:00 AM. Cloudy skies early, followed by partial clearing. High 94F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
Right now radar is showing scattered showers all around, but the weather station hasn't picked up any accumulation. Yesterday was overcast most of the day, and I didn't miss the sun pounding down even a little bit.

That's some good news on your back, Drew. Hope you can resist the urge to go parading around like a spring chicken, though.

In the fire that swept through Santa Rosa a year or two ago, Kyle, there was an older couple that spent the night in their swimming pool. They survived, but darn near froze to death. If you watch videos shot during the fire in Paradise, lots of people survived the ember storm without any protection at all. As long as they could stay away from the flames, it turned out OK for them. Pretty sure I have enough open space here to do that, and I've laid in a full face respirator so I'll have clean air to breathe. Read an article last week about multi-layer clothing strategies for burn prevention, so I ordered a flame proof base layer, kinda like long underwear. Talk about supply chain problems, the top is on backorder.

I guess some birds have bad feather days, huh Ron?

I've never seen that many blooms on a lily before, Rich. Are you using some kind of special fertilizer?

That photo of your kayak's bow going down that creek brought back some fond boyhood memories, Paul. Scrounged up a couple truck inner tubes and a sheet of plywood and built a raft. Had it a few weeks before someone stole it, but it was fun while it lasted.

All the stuff that was on order was delivered by FedEx yesterday, but it took two separate deliveries. Got a security camera to work over a 1000' spool of CAT 5e wire using the Ethernet range extenders, but it wouldn't work over two spools. I don't need all 2000', but I do need 1400', and it's rated for over 3000', so I'll be on the horn to tech support this morning. Also noticed that the camera image is a bit blurry, even on a short cable, so need to look into that, too. Seems like it's always sumthin'.

Fire wise, the heat map isn't showing any recent hot spots. Hard to believe it's true. But the air outside is cleaner than it's been in a while. Probably just take a little wind to fan the embers back into a conflagration, though. Hope it doesn't blow this way...

daugen · Jul 27, 2021

Team USA's Carissa Moore won the first ever women’s surfing gold medal in Olympics history on Tuesday,
Attagirl!

I need to tune in and watch some of the Olympics.
Maybe tonight, busy day until then.

wngsprd · Jul 27, 2021

70 and foggy, going to 92. Rain missed us yesterday, but dropped 7.5" not too far away in Chesterfield. Some roads are closed from the flooding, and other damage.

RS, that's cool that you dug into groundhog tunnels...I often wonder where their tunnels, as well as chipmunk and fox tunnels go, and how deep, etc.

Randy, like you, seems like the batteries last forever on the grill igniters...I'm not sure I've ever had to change the one on our Weber, and it sits outside 12 months a year. I think I'll take a new battery out next time I use it...or is that a jinx?

PJ, cool bridges and kayak photos...relaxing just to look at them.

BEF, sorry to read about your cat....very sad time for you.

Glad your air is a little better, RNG...Kyle's swimming pool plan sounds good to me, but also sounds like you've got things covered.

One of Coco's vets made a donation in her memory to a local pet health research non-profit. I researched them this morning and made a donation, too.

From where I'm sitting, can look out the windows and see about 30 hummingbirds sitting peacefully together on the feeders. That's rare since most of the time they run each other off after a couple of seconds...maybe today is National Get Along with Each Other Day.

Popgadget · Jul 27, 2021

Good Morning.
It’s 75 headed to 90+ in brilliant sunshine.
Possible rain overnight.

Yesterday was mostly inside. I got everything out of the KubVan and put away upstairs. I cheated and used an appliance dolly pulled up the stairs by a floor mounted winch. It’s not fast, but it sure saves the back. I installed the winch and modded the hand truck years ago, but only use it sporadically.
After the gear was stowed, I spent some time figuring out how to handle the recordings from the mixer. I added a card that will capture 32 tracks onto SD cards, but it saves them as multi track wav files, and to compound my confusion, it breaks it up into 4gb files. My task was to figure out how to load the separate tracks contained in the files, and then slice the separate files together into a seamless recording. Took a while to work it out and save some templates, but going forward it will be easy. But I spent the whole day at it.

Today I’m off to give my mechanical contractor buddy a hand.

Popgadget · Jul 27, 2021

buckeyefarmer said:
Have a battery igniter on my Webber, it did not last long.

The battery, or the igniter itself?

txdon · Jul 27, 2021

Good morning! 71˚F heading to the mid 90s. Yesterday was the hottest - Tempest said 98˚F Ranger said 100˚F during Whipper's trail walk.

Even the morning project of cleaning the porch fan had to be interrupted with a cool down break. I unscrewed all the blade then on the last blade I saw that they snap off by pushing a hidden lock. Does anyone else have problems with droopy fan blades on outside ceiling fans. I wish they would make a blade stiffener for hot climates.

Good news on the back Drew.

One couple that I play cards with announced last night announced that they are moving to an independent living that can also accommodate dependent living. They are in their mid 90s and will be moved out in a month. That seems to be the pattern here if you live long enough and start to get frail.