Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 1.5" rain, about .5" still to come today and more tomorrow.
Trench by pool handling the runoff well.

Roy- can't believe that flag pole jumped out and got you :-(
Kyle- prayers for your friend on respirator

Drew - watch the road rivers today.

Stay safe and be well, inside day today

 

[two_bit_score]

TwoBit,
I'm interested in your trip to Austin. Am readying a scifi novel on Kindle that is partially set in Austin.
They keep referring to the eccentric folks there, touting tshirts saying Keep Austin Weird.
Is this just some fictional invention or is Austin a little different? Drew

Austin is very different from the rest of Texas.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 63F @ 8:30AM. Sunny. Visibility reduced by smoke. High 87F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Funny, it's just as smoky now, even less so, than it has been for the past two weeks, and the weather guessers are only now mentioning smoke?

Austin sounds like it's been infected with the same disease as Kalifornia, Portland, Seattle, and many big American cities, Kyle. Hopefully good folks can keep it from spreading to the rest of the state.

Glad you got your ride in the Mustang, Ron, but it's a shame you didn't get to slide in behind the wheel.

I'll have to talk to RS about slowing down a bit, Billy. He's makin' all the rest of us look like a bunch of slackers.

Thanks for the suggestions for the ladder, folks. I like the inner tube idea, goodness knows I have enough old inner tubes here. But I think in this case I'll stick with the blocks because I like something to hold onto when I'm getting on top of the tank, and the stabilizer would just be up in the air.

Used some pipe scraps to mock up one of the joints for the grizzly frame yesterday. Not my best work, but it'll get the job done.

Weather was pretty nice yesterday, so I rolled the red bike out and gave it a good degreasing and wash. Sure looked nice in the sun. I was surprised to find gas still in the tank; usually I drain them if the bike is going to be sitting a while. Got a little more than five gallons out of it, then tried to pour it into the van. The nozzle on the Never Spill was too short to get through the trap door in the filler neck, and it made a mess all over the side of the van. I've pulled those little trap doors out of many motorcycle tanks, and now I'm wondering if the van would still pass SMOG if I did it to it, too. I seem to put a lot more gasoline vapor into the atmosphere using state mandated inferior fueling technology, than the plain old vents, nozzles and necks that always work.

Neighbor said he might have some pipe for the grizzly, so around dinner time I went up to his place to take a look. The one piece we could find was too small, but he treated me to some shrimp, tritip, and a couple beers, so it worked out.

Standing out in his field, the phone went off with a notification from the burglar alarm, tripped again by the fan. I shut it off and shortly after that headed home. When I got there I found a card from the Sheriff's Office saying they'd gotten an alarm and came out to check. But that was more than an hour earlier. Never got any notification for that alarm, cell service just isn't good enough to guarantee reception. But I really need to have a talk with the alarm service and get it set up so they only call the cops if they can actually see video of someone inside the house. One more false alarm and I'll get hit with a healthy fine.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .48 inches rain. Supposed to catch a lot of wet from Linda starting today Hope you guys in path of Henri are hunkered down and safe.

Today I will apply texture to the walls, just didn’t get there yesterday.

Nice dinner at friends condo. Found it a bit amazing how crowded the beach parks along the way given our COVID explosion.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

Sorry about your truck, Roy. Suspect many of us can relate. My story involved a Chevy and a well frozen snowbank many years ago.

 

[Thomas]

73F on/off quick showers since 1:30pm lasting 6:30pm about than that nasty storm gone,wish wind was more steady to break the air.

Had burst of energy so trim and mow the front field before noon,wife fried some eggplant slices for lunch tasted pretty good and eggplant near the bottom of my list.
Time to talk walk check game cams than catch last 50 laps nascar,by than chicken bake potatoes should be ready to enjoy,no nap today so pillow time will come early.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

70 going to 88.

No storms yesterday, but it took until 5pm for the dew to finally dry, and so I could mow the Frisbee field, which had gotten very high with no recent activity.

Kyle, sound like an interesting trip over to LA. Are your kids back to school yet?

Buppies, your bear doesn't sound good. Be careful. Glad you got some rain.

Thomas, a tropical storm coming, and just had an earthquake down near Rochester/Portsmouth. It probably wasn't big enough for you to feel.

While waiting for the grass to fully dry, replaced my bush hog with the carry all on the 3 point hitch and did some rearranging of some firewood pallets. Then swapped the carry all for the spray tank and installed the pump. I always take my pump off and fill with anti-freeze when not using the sprayer. Then string trimmed for about a full battery's worth. Felt like I had a RNG or RS kind of a day.

Yes Billy, started last Wednesday. No mask mandate....yet.

 

[RoyJackson]

This looks pretty tasty!!

Cream Potato Soup!!! – onlyskinnyrecipes

 

[txdon]

This looks pretty tasty!!

Cream Potato Soup!!! – onlyskinnyrecipes

I thought it might be promising with the name of the website. But after looking at the ingredients I think they should change it to onlyfatrecepiesgetreadyforaheartattack.
bacon 24g. fat, grease 38g. fat, cheese 43g fat, sour cream 24g fat, Milk 8g fat.
Sorry Roy, I couldn't resist posting since the web name had skinny in it.

 

[RoyJackson]

I thought it might be promising with the name of the website. But after looking at the ingredients I think they should change it to onlyfatrecepiesgetreadyforaheartattack.
bacon 24g. fat, grease 38g. fat, cheese 43g fat, sour cream 24g fat, Milk 8g fat.
Sorry Roy, I couldn't resist posting since the web name had skinny in it.

It's cool!!

I know it's a high calorie soup, but since I'm, for all intents and purposes, a vegetarian, I can splurge now and then. I eat very little meat by choice...but I do like a BLT or similar now and then

 

[txdon]

How often is every now and then? Without the vegetables and if it's 4 servings per recipe then it's 33 grams of fat per serving (when I put it in myfitnesspal website).

I really shouldn't be messing with you . . . you had a bad week.

 

[rswyan]

76F and clear @ 20:45, heading down to a low of 67F overnight.

Early start today (after a very late night last night ... ) got little over half of the new planting bed on the east side of the frog pond raked out. Had sprayed that area a while back, so it was mostly dead or dying. Still need to gather up the debris and haul them up to the compost pile ... along with spraying the other half ... but I need to move some items first.

Watered the potted stuff - iris, hemlock, and oak trees.

Fixed the one tube feeder that had six broken perches, with the spare parts I've accumulated - now just need to clean it out.

Dumped two 5 gallons buckets of used cat litter into two groundhog holes on the east side of the house, pushed it in with an old implement handle and then used the garden hose to flush it further down into their burrows. The main entry/exit hole will get a shot of pepper spray tomorrow ...

Raked out some screened soil that I had dumped a few days ago on another area (northeast) with exposed roots.

After that I started to do the clean up on the east side planting bed on the edge of the woods. Made some good progress there weeding and giving one of the two rhododendrons a good pruning:

Appears to be a decent amount of new growth ... so it appears to be liking it there. Added a cup and half of soil sulphur and peat moss around the base and worked it in. Hopefully get it watered tomorrow.

Once the clean up is finished, this area will get more screened compost added, then a bunch of those hosta sets The Woman separated, and finally it will get mulched.

Since I was up late last night, I did manage to sneak in a 3 hour nap mid-afternoon while the temps were the warmest ...

Hope everyone had a great Sunday ...

 

[Buppies]

No wngsprd just local stuff never been to VIR about two hours from here pretty cool I’m told

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 76F for the start, light breeze, partly cloudy sky. Light wind most of the day was moderate in late afternoon. Sky stayed partly cloudy (afternoon buildups) and High temp was 94F, HI 104F and DP 72F. Chapel this morning then conserve energy today. Did pick life jackets, ski rope, ski pole, skis etc and put them away. Did take nap.
Covid update: Cooke 3546 confirmed cases, 78 active cases, Montague 2002 confirmed cases, 61 active cases, Grayson, 12715 confirmed cases, 245 active cases. Cooke 0, Montague 0, Grayson 0, new cases.
Kyle Interesting trip, noticed a lot places quit doing tire mounting unless you bought tires there. Love Cajun food.
Doug would not mind a pic of before and after mowing with flail.
Eric sorry rain messed up your pic
Ron you didn't remind him you were driving before he was in diapers? nice pic
Drew hope you won't get too flooded.
Bird the second report sounds like it hit you much harder than the first report.
RS seems early for leaf turning, productive day
Thomas glad range showed, and Mrs happy
Nice pics, never seen a double tractor before.
Buppies hope you are caught up on rain
Billy does sound like a full day. Quite the exciting experience in the truck.
Rich neat day Saturday.
Phil looks like a lot of damage, glad storm was downgraded.
Kyle that was quite the list of stuff "good" bad
John hope the Mexican restaurant worked out
Kyle thanks for the book report
Ted Sorry about the back, is knee improving at all?
Ken good to hear you are weathering storm pk.
RNG know what you mean about mandated gas can/sprouts. Used to have to monitor alarms at work, had same issue with ADT.
Thomas glad you liked the eggplant sorry no nap.
RS hope you ground hog efforts pay off. Nice nap!
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Bird/aging issues/, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, PJ/FIL fall and stroke, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new areas, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder/Dad's passing, Grev/wife's eye, 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/Back issues, RNG/fire season, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[two_bit_score]

@daugen, sorry for the short answer earlier but I was in a hurry and didn’t want to get into politics which is almost impossible when discuss Austin. I think I’ve tried to stay non-political In the post below.

I have been involved with Austin since the early 1970’s. It is a very political place. Hence the weird aspect.

Right now the city has been forced by the voters to reinstate an ordinance they revoked over a year ago that prohibited camping in public places And to clean up the mess from bums camping under every overpass in town.

The city council has also severely cut funding to the police department. This of course has resulted in a lot of friction in the city. Police response times are very bad right now even for shootings, stabbings and other serious crimes.

Austin used to be able to absorb some of the weirdness and everyone would let it roll off. It’s gotten to the point where that is just not possible for most voters to accept any longer.

I spend a lot of time in Austin. There are about 40 square blocks around the Capitol that are under primary jurisdiction of the Texas DPS. It was recently expanded but I don’t recall how much. I do my business and don’t wander around like I used to.

Back during the riots last summer Austin had some of that. It was supported by the City Council but tamped down very quickly by the TxDPS. I watched live video from people on the street in front of the Austin PD building where rioters were trying to whip up the crowd. By this time there had been at least one shooting where a man was killed.

The APD announced that this meeting was illegal and they must disband. They didn’t. Then came the APD mounted units. And right behind them was a huge number of DPS in riot gear. APD made the announcement to disband and the crowd promptly drifted away. Riot was over in Less than 30 minutes.

I could post a long post about what I have loved about Austin over the years but that Austin may be gone for good. I hope not.

 

[rswyan]

Good evening all. 76F for the start, light breeze, partly cloudy sky. Light wind most of the day was moderate in late afternoon. Sky stayed partly cloudy (afternoon buildups) and High temp was 94F, HI 104F and DP 72F. Chapel this morning then conserve energy today. Did pick life jackets, ski rope, ski pole, skis etc and put them away. Did take nap.

Nap Good ...

Love Cajun food.

Same.

RS seems early for leaf turning,

It always seems like it ... but it's pretty typical for around here.

The hawthorns are the first to start dropping their leaves (around late July/beginning of August), followed in 3 weeks or so by the dogwoods starting to turn color.

productive day

Yeah, considering ...

Tomorrow will be better ...

RS hope you ground hog efforts pay off.

Resistance is futile ... it's only a matter of time.

Nice nap!

I sure enjoyed it ...

Hope the conserve energy day was enjoyable ...

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-08-23, 0321

68° right now....high in the upper 70's. Rain today, but not near what was predicted a day or so back...less then ¼" in today's forecast. I hope that holds true...

Our recertification for the Quality Management System starts today. I'm the guy leading the charge, so to speak. I've had some communications with the registrar and he seems pretty reasonable.

Wreaking the truck came at a bad time (not that there's any good time to wreak a vehicle!!)...can't really afford to get it to the shop for another week. It's not the money...it's because I need the truck (bring pallet forks home tomorrow (Tuesday delivery) and pick up the rescue pup next Saturday)

Anyway, y'all have a great day!!!

 

[ronjhall]

Frist cup of coffee is cooling. 70° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 86° with partly cloudy skies. Did some shop work yesterday. Put a battery disconnect switch in mule. Need to do some shop cleanup today. Then mow grass that should have been done yesterday.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

Ron more wee pig less grass to mow

67 high of 91 more heat throughout the week in fact thru mid September if the longer range is to be believed. But it changes daily

Prayers for all

 

[daugen]

good morning all
glub glub, mighty wet out, flood warnings out, 2.68 inches of rain so far

Ron, great pic, you must have gotten down close to the ground to capture that.

Supposed to rain all morning, will hold off on errands until this afternoon

This morning my number one priority is getting through to covid vaccine center, who announces their hours to include
Saturday 9 til noon. I called at 9:30am, we are sorry but we are closed today. Ok...

At church on Sunday I was asked to help house and grounds with a project they could not handle, too much disagreement and not enough getting done.
All about security on site, how to deal with dangerous folks. Local police and consultant gave us a 35 page report on everything to make the place safer, which I think is wonderful.
But keeping in mind we are all pacifists, the arrival of police on campus with guns still seems to bother some of the old timers.
Not me. I started the "intruder on campus" project at the local private school fifteen years ago when I was on the board before.
Oh, it can't happen here.
Un huh.
we may be the peaceable kingdom but the world is not.
And to confirm that, local police are now patrolling the local churches on Sunday morning, just to make a presence.
So clearly there is some kind of threat assessment going on.
I met the officer stopping by and we had a nice chat.
Maybe it's because I was a fireman for a long time, but the police have always been
the good guys to me, the public servants willing to do what others can't.