Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Happy Birthday Randy !!!

 

[wngsprd]

64 going to 84...a nice cool few days forecasted.

Happy 69 Randy! Sounds like you had a good, big celebration and treats to eat. Enjoy today!

Thomas, did your legs turn green from mowing wet grass in shorts? I've done that.

 

[Buppies]

Happy Birthday Randy and thank you

 

[Buppies]

Thanks Thomas

sorry about supervisor not too smart

 

[Thomas]

Thomas, did your legs turn green from mowing wet grass in shorts? I've done that.

My pants t shirt did and Mrs. said I look like toss salad.

 

[RoyJackson]

We had water come in around the sewer pipe (goes to the septic tank) last night. I've never seen that before....didn't last long (maybe 5-6 minutes), but I'll check for any damage and use the shop vac to clean up when the stepdaughter wakes up

Most of the water has evaporated and the walls are dry.
I need to climb in the crawl space and see why that water came through the wall and how best to ensure it doesn't happen again
Granted, we need the rain, but not at such an intensity. I've heard there were a number of washouts between here and Randolph (about 6 miles north). The road is bordered by embankments....most dirt, so washouts aren't surprising

Happy Birthday, Randy!!!

 

[Bird]

Yesterday afternoon, the TV was interrupted by a severe weather warning for our county, then we got a nice little shower, no wind, that put about two-tenths of an inch in my gauge; no severe weather at all. This morning, I put the garbage out front about 5:30 a.m. and it was not raining; came right back in and went out back just as it started to sprinkle, and I found about .47" of water in the rain gauge; don't know whether it happened before or after midnight. Then at 6 a.m. it got a bit noisy and I looked out to see a real downpour. Sure glad I mowed yesterday morning.

We're supposed to have the A/C technician here before noon to do his 6 month inspection and/or service on our home A/C system. Hope it ain't raining when he gets here.

 

[Popgadget]

Good morning
It’s 60 and might barely make it to 80 today with clear skies.
Yesterday’s rain totaled just over 1/2”.

Lazy inside day yesterday, helped wife with a few projects, put a few things away, played some music with neighbors, and called it a day.

Today I’ve got to put the forks on the tractor and unload a trailer load of flooring made from old barn oak for my son’s project. Probably have to do it in the road.
Might actually get the plane buttoned up today if the flooring shows up early enough.

 

[newbury]

<snip>Why should those that have already been vaccinated have to go back to wearing masks to protect those that have chosen not to protect themselves?

I'm glad you asked that.

It isn't just about protecting those who have chosen not to protect themselves - although that would certainly be an admirable goal.

The virus is mutating and evolving ... and likely will continue to do so.

Every person who acquires (or reacquires) the virus serves as an incubator for further mutations, some of which could possibly be worse than what we are dealing with now.

Better to reduce the opportunities for those mutations to occur and spread ... rather than finding out later that we wished we would have when something worse ends up coming down the pike.

It's certain an inconvenience - especially for those in hotter parts of the country - but it may well pale in comparison to what could evolve if we don't.

What he wrote - keep the mutants down!

RNG, my BIL sent these pictures of Lake Orville. First picture is 3 years ago. Is this correct?
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Also impressive is the view from Google Earth, where you can easily step through historical imagery.

 

[txdon]

Almost forgot, my wife had cherry, peach, apple and blueberry pies for me, I like pies better than cakes. Now to resist the leftovers.

Randy, Resistance is futile, just succumb to the Borg pies. Happy 69th!
Thomas, that is a wild morning's turn of events. Hope the owners sees the managers "managing" as an overstep and restores your 20hr position and the company does not get run into the ground.

Good morning. 76˚F heading only to the mid 80s with the cool front that pushed through. Very cloudy chance of rain.

The pitter patter of light rain woke me this morning and it was very light total .01" Tempest, (.03" in the rain gauge on the same pole) one shower at 6:30 A.M. and one at 7:40 A.M. lasting 10 minutes each. Bird, the Tempest weather station records the amount, intensity, duration and time of each rain event. On my Tempest the amount it is close but usually a bit less than the rain gauge says and Popgadget's Tempest usually shows a bit more, David's seems to be the most accurate.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good afternoon, 20C/ 68F with hardly a breath of wind. My jobs for the day are done so I will go pick up some of the green cherries that dropped early and do a bit of target shooting.

My wife surprised me by having done some compact tractor spotting while she was watching the Olympics. She counted 3 Iseki compacts cleaning up after the horses. Maybe Kubotas are in other events.

 

[rswyan]

67 and Fair @ 10:30, heading up to a high of 76F for the day. Calling for winds @ 5 to 10 MPH and then somewhat less for the next three days.

Refilled the hopper feeder yesterday. Looking out there this morning it looks like we are having good crop of bluejays this year, along with the bluebirds.

Spent most of the day yesterday cleaning up the garage down here at the house. Made a good progress, but still a ways to go to finish it up. Have a full dump cart of stuff to go up to the shop, mostly pieces parts from previous repairs plus some tools. Will work on it some more today, though I might let myself get distracted by some other stuff for a little seat time.

Verified the hose that needs replaced on the sprayer boom is 1/2", so can get that picked up.

Did locate the spare parts for the tube feeder so I can get that finished up and put back up today.

Also got another two rows of wire put up on the electric fence. Need to get the fencer wired up.

Japanese beetles were not all that bad this year that I could tell - although I did see some - but The Woman was asking about putting down milky spore the other day so I did some checking into that.

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

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Randy.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 58 this morning, 76 forecasted high, chance of T-storms. We had a brief sprinkle this morning, so moisture is in place for those storms.

Agenda for today involves going into the big city for some errands then possibly working on the drip system after returning home.... depending upon time and energy level.

Thomas, sorry to hear about the situation at work.... right hand doesn't know what left hand is doing.... hope they get it straightened out.

Randy, it's your birthday.... you're allowed to eat those pies!

Gotta get the bones moving....
Everyone have a great day and start to the week!

 

[txdon]

. . . so I will go pick up some of the green cherries that dropped early and do a bit of target shooting.

You do have strict gun laws, are the green cherries the targets or the ammo?

 

[RoyJackson]

Crawl space cleaned out and pretty dry...the room in which the crawl space entrance is located is one finished room (of three, plus the head) of a basement apartment (my stepdaughter lives there).
6-8 square feet of the room's carpet was pretty wet too. Using a fan, it's fairly dry now...probably need a carpet cleaning though.
Not sure exactly where the water originated, but it was like a cow pissing on a flat rock there, for a while. My estimate of the length of time (5-6 minutes in this morning's first post) was about half of the actual time the water was flowing.

Since I had called in (vacation day) this morning and it was too late to head to work...figured I'd do some outdoors's work. About an hour weed trimming, that swapped out the flail mower (which I hadn't even used this season, for the chipper...and greased the tractor and chipper...

 

[rswyan]

Happy Birthday top !

May you have many more ... AND feel free to eat all the pie you want at any of them ...

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .53 inches rain.

Time to start mowing again. Sun peaking out. Likely to start on wet side but dry out, Hopefully

Clean up of construction area went well and made something of an easy day. Knocked off after lunch and spent leisurely afternoon with Sophie. Yea, probably should have mowed, but I’m retired

COVID numbers still going crazy here. Unvaxxed, but I’m sure they are the least masked, least socially distance, and most irresponsible based on what little detail makes the news. Seems the newscasters never challenge the ignorance nor selfishness when interviewing until after interview is over. I think the media just loves the situation, playing both sides instead of concentrating on the results.

Not a partisan/political issue, never should have been and maybe time to call out those treating as such.

As a kid I grew up fully expecting to get mumps, measles, chicken pox, etc simply because there were no vaccines.

OK, off my rant. At least people here act responsibly

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

RNG, my BIL sent these pictures of Lake Orville. First picture is 3 years ago. Is this correct?
View attachment 707913

That picture been making it’s rounds on FB. Remember the first pic is before the dam emergency.

 

[PJSprog]

63°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 81° today.

Rained on and off most of the day on Saturday, so we piddled with inside stuff. We'd ordered a kayak trailer a little over a month ago, and The Wife decided to check online to see if there was any progress towards the reported 3-4 months delivery time. What she found was a notice that our (and many others) order had been cancelled. No notice sent to us at all. When she called them, a nice lady there told her that they had so many orders that they couldn't fill them all, so they just started cancelling them. She then wanted to know if they could get us something else. Not in this lifetime. So, Wifey started looking some more and found one on Amazon hat had great reviews, and ordered that. Three of the four boxes arrived Friday, with the fourth finally arriving late Saturday afternoon ... after a couple of heated calls to FedEx to inform them that a Sunday delivery would indeed not be acceptable. So, about 7:30pm we started assembling the trailer. Most of it went together very easily. Some of it, though, took some small amount of violence and even a little modification. In the end, it was completed just before midnight.

We got up Sunday morning and took it on it's maiden voyage to Lake Springfield, where we finally made it far enough up Sugar Creek to get to the famed covered bridge. We strapped the kayaks together floating around under the bridge and ate a PBJ and some snacks. There were a few places close to the bridge that were challenging to find ways through the debris in the creek, but we managed without having to get out and portage around any of it. It was about a 7-1/2 mile round trip paddle, and I am feeling that today. Good time, though. We stopped on the way home at the same Mexican restaurant as last weekend, and the food was still delicious.

Kyle, tribute bands are treated the same as any other cover band. The venues that have live music pay an annual fee to the various collection organizations, and those fees get distributed to the artists they represent.

Happy Birthday, Randy.