Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 64F for the start, clear sky, light breeze. Wind was light, sky went to mostly cloudy and back mostly clear, and high temp was 87F, DP 64F. Humidity has stayed lower than forecast, rain is looking more definite next week . Men's meeting to start day, worked on chain saw, have wood harvest coming up soon. Made trip to gold cart place and got parts for chain saw and golf cart on list to get initial service done, at 30 hours. Did get nap in, did not get bike chain done, need to get it done prior to Saturday.
Covid update: Cooke 3845 confirmed cases, 65 active cases, Montague 2324 confirmed cases, 63 active cases, Grayson, 13998 confirmed cases, 342 active cases. Cooke 16, Montague 19, Grayson 48, new cases.
RS interesting collection of stuff, you will be read for a scrap run soon
Buppies hope you get some rain soon.
Ron shapers are getting rare anymore, haven't run one since early 80's. neat visitor
Drew hope you had good luck with tracking down shed. You have a busy day today.
Thomas have fun on your walk
Ken trench is much bigger now, will you do some erosion control?
Paul you may survive the type rating yet
Dennis sorry bout the surgery. prayers sent
RNG sorry about the sand scarcity, always plenty in STL, as it gets dredged from Mississippi River.
PJ sorry about the downed power lines. glad you are getting some rain, we are in more of a summer pattern, rain wise but not as hot.
Eric the rain does not take long to get into the mines, the geological structure is very porous. Not sure what they can do for flood control. Glad sheep are happy
David Glad town trip good, good luck with grout, sorry you are losing friends.
RS Have fun with the service on Kubota, enjoy your inside day
Dennis hope wife becomes a good patient. Glad surgery went well
Thomas nice Buddy said thank you. nice to get outside.
Dennis she really need to be careful and let wrist heal. My sister did not.
RS having fun shopping?
Doug sorry about the redo.
Don surprised at people not getting the second jab. sorry about your rise in cases today.
Roy hope you needed the rain
Don so you still have plenty cedar to cut?
RS I am waiting for the days when we get 55F for a low here!
Rich congrats on winning such a cool bike!
Randy been there done that with meetings that are complete way before they are done.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don,whipper/more tests,ring bearer/back broken, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, PJ/FIL fall and stroke, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on arm, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery/Back issues, RNG/fire season, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good evening! 64 now, think it only got to 73 today. Had some light showers.

got a project dumped on me today. Seems our engineering may have made a little goof and can’t figure out what is now wrong. Got 2 guys in IN twiddling their thumbs and I have a pile of schematics on my desk trying to figure out what is wrong. Just a brake system, how big of a deal is that……

I never win anything. Ever. I do enter raffles if I think the money is going to a good place, but never expect to win. Recently a race bike went up for raffle 150 tickets @ $100/ea. $3k of the proceeds would got to the Rookies of 79 which helps injured racers. Kyle knows the charity. I had an odd feeling about this raffle. Not that it wasn’t legit, but that I would win, which never happens. Drawing was today, i was joking this morning about needing a business trip to FL to pick up my new bike. It was a joke, I never win anything. Started getting text messages this afternoon congratulating me on winning. I thought it was a joke until I got an email from the owner. Check out my new race bike



I have no idea what I am gonna do with it!

Everyone stay safe out there.

Wow, oh wow! Get your steel shoe back out of the bottom drawer!
Lets put a light kit and front brakes on it.

 

[sodamo]

Sounds good. I'll never forget mine. I had reached a point that I had no grip AND I had about quit going to bed at night, just sat up with my hands hanging down so I could move them a bit when they got to hurting too much. I think I was lucky in getting the right surgeon. I did over hear him telling someone that mine was the worst he'd ever seen.

A couple of days after the surgery his nurse called to ask how I was doing. I told her my wrist hurts like the dickens and she said,"Oh?" and I told her, "Not the one he worked on; it's just fine, but the other one hurts; when can he do it?" She told me he liked to wait at least a month before doing the second one. I really didn't want to wait that long . . . but . . . well, I had the left hand done on August 4, 1997 and the right hand done on September 3, 1997. So yep almost a month.

I've never been happier with anything any doctor has done to me.

Reminds me of my knees, Bird. Didn’t realized how much left hurt until I got right fixed.

 

[sodamo]

Speedy recovery for your wife, Dennis

 

[newtonlil819]

Good morning

Tea for me and today I’ll be working late

 

[sodamo]

Day got off to a slower start than anticipated.

Got a quite high quote on LS MT125 for Sophie. Thousands more than expected. This is a new dealer, replacing the one 1 bought from. My guess from their main website is they are more a corporate supplier vs user/consumer.
By the time you add taxes, it is more than I paid for my XR4140.

As I was sorting thru this my new neighbor called. Very talkative type. Had to tell him I had a bucket of grout calling me. Then I had to explain the grout

But I did get underway, will still need a final clean up.

Also decided that it would be beneficial for our son to inherit not just assets that have appreciated, but also assets that have been appreciated (by me and his Mom ). In keeping with that, I put a deposit on a UTV, Kawasaki Mule 4010 4x4.

Dealer didn’t have an inbound yet, just posted to website by Kawasaki last night which probably means it is invoiced but not shipped. Decided to go kinda middle of the road, more utility. Dealer had told me to watch the website as they show up there first and tend to be sold by time they arrive. I’ll likely add a roof and windshield.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-09-16, 0336

59° right now...high in the low 70's...

 

[ronjhall]

poured first cup of coffee. 52° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 77° with a few clouds in PM. Spent most of yesterday taking shaper apart and checking out bearings and other parts. Cleaned it up and put back together. Still need to make a way to hook up vacuum to it. Will work well to square up edges that are too narrow to feed threw my planer. With cutter I have it will do up 2" wide. Grocery shopping this morning. Then a little house cleaning.

David, nice Mule. Lots of accessories that can be added.

Buckeye, hope you wifes surgery recovery goes well.

RNG, NO Sand . Lots of sand in Michigan.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

Prayers your wife’s hand heals quickly BEF

Nice UTV sodamo

Drew I would go get it so they do not lose another one

Sorry about wife’s delay PJ due to fallen power lines and trees

Nice bike RichB1

66 high of 79 today cloudy still no rain

Prayers for all

 

[daugen]

good morning all
much cooler day, some showers last night, more this afternoon, high in upper 70's.

several hour zoom school board meeting last night, went well, school is doing super well and it was announced last night
that some very very deep pocket just donated 5.7M to school as part of 9.5M capital campaign to build a new gym and science classrooms.
That sure got the campaign off to an amazing start, means we can start building next year.

It's going to be a real test of dealer morality when/if my Ridgeline comes in. Will they honor the 2k off discount I negotiated six months ago?
Many dealers aren't... was told this would be a 2022 model now, not a 2021 so I'm assuming that might hike up the base price a small amount.

Welcome NewtonLil. Tea is fine. What model tractor do you have?

David, good luck with UTV and hope it shows up in reasonable amount of time. Whatever that is any more...

hoped to get grass mowed this morning before it rains again. Maybe.

right shoulder went out last night, doesn't hurt as bad as left did, but depressing to think I may have to get this one operated on also. Same muscle/tendon, one going across the top and down the outside of the shoulder.

Sand is a really big deal in SE Asia as concrete construction in China and India has drained local supplies. All those concrete high rises China built took a lot of sand to make.

 

[daugen]

I look at that racing bike, congrats Rich, and visions of orthopedic surgeons immediately appear.
I bet you can find someone to make very happy.
We have enough bad knees, legs and other parts here; don't want you to add any more...

quiet grey morning, time for one more cup.
hummingbird out there sucking it up, puts beak down for three or four seconds at a time.
Then waits a little bit. And down goes the beak again. Then I think they are so buzzed they have to fly around....

nah Doc, I don't have diabetes. I'm just a big hummingbird.

 

[Bird]

Waiting to get my carpal tunnel done again. Both thumbs painful, no grip, drop things, two fingers bending and have to be snapped back. Yuk.

My mother had to have such surgery twice. I have not had to have it a second time. Is that a matter of luck, or a matter of me having a better surgeon than you and my mother had the first time? I've always thought it was the latter.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good morning

Tea for me and today I’ll be working late

Welcome to TBN and Good Morning.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 62F @ 5:15AM. Sunny. High 88F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Today a cooling trend starts that runs through the weekend, which also brings a chance of rain. But just enough to glue all that dust down to whatever it's clinging to now.

I had carpal tunnel surgery when they went in to pin a broken bone in my wrist, Bird. The surgeon that did the work left the pin extending out into the joint, and a year later a real doctor had to go in and fix it. In my experience at least, doctors are no different than mechanics, plumbers, or any other trade or profession, in that there are good 'uns and bad 'uns. The only difference is that thanks to the AMA, there's no Angie's List or Amazon rating system so you can find out which is which.

Containment on the Dixie Fire has grown to 75%, and good progress is being made on the other fires, too. Last week there were 15,000 firefighters on the lines, now it's down to 11,000. They think Lake Tahoe is safe now as well.

Neighbor suggested a quarry that might have sand, and they had four different kinds. They even deliver, but the phone call with the details never materialized. Just another sign of the times, I guess. I'm on hold doing any more trench filling until that's worked out, but it was kinda nice not ending the day all covered in brown dust for a change.

After fiddling away most of the day catching up on paperwork while waiting on that phone call, I said to heck with it and got busy rigging the water level sensor up to the big tank. First job was to mount the two side stops for the ladder, and the inner tube rubber strapped to the ladder ends really helped keep things in place while I drilled and screwed. So thanks for the suggestion!

Drilling a hole in the tank and putting the wire through was easy, but the bulkhead pass trough fitting wasn't long enough to make it all the way through the heavy wall of the tank. It was almost 5/8" thick! I found a spot facing tool and tried it out, but without a pilot, it just skidded all over the place. Didn't want to take the time, but ended up cobbling one together from stuff in the drawer, and it worked perfectly. There was plenty of wire on the sensor to reach the junction box, and the electrical end went smoothly, too. Back down at the pump house on other end of the wire, I measured continuity, a good thing the float switch was still up out of the water. But it wasn't out of the water by much, as all that pumping has the tank within a couple hundred gallons of full. Today I'll get the other end wired in, so more fiddling around in the pump house.

COVID-19 numbers are way up in the local hospital, so it's back to masks, hand sanitizer, and social distancing on today's grocery run. That same neighbor texted me saying he hasn't been feeling well lately, but he hasn't been tested yet. I plan to avoid him for the next couple of weeks, just to be safe.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 68 and going to 90 with sunny skies here in Wichita.

Yesterday’s ground school ended with a test, which I did well on. I have off to day, planning to go see the B29 “Doc” which is in a hangar here, then off to the Cessna plant to check up on the plane. Tomorrow starts in the sim, all of our sim sessions are at civilized times, most starting about 1pm. The only exception is the last one for the check ride starts at 5am, that’s next Friday.

 

[PJSprog]

57°F and clear skies with some spotty fog this morning, going up to 84° today.

Wife played babysitter on Sunday for the youngest stepson's new girlfriend, who has an 18-month-old daughter. The girl was sick, and now, so is my Wife. She cancelled her trainings scheduled for yesterday and just vegged on the couch downstairs. Said she feels a little better today, no doubt in part due to the ingestion of copious amounts of RobitussinDM. No good deed goes unpunished.

Congrats, Rich. Looks like a fun bike. Way to smash that I-never-win-anything curse.

BEF, we have a production meeting every Tuesday and Thursday at work, and probably 99% of what transpires there could have been addressed with an email. Maybe once every three or four months there is an actual Quality issue I need to address.

Welcome to the GM thread, newtonlil819. Always preferred tea myself.

Wow, David, that's nearly as much as I paid for my 3135 with a cab. Crazy. Congrats on the new Mule.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, sunny after some rain last night.
Went rock picking in the trench, for two full carts full. Too hot to do much else.

BEF - very glad to hear the surgery went well
Drew - $1350 poorer and with a swollen lip just happy to be home. Dentist visit done for a while I hope?

Stay safe and be well

 

[Bird]

RedNeckGeek said, "In my experience at least, doctors are no different than mechanics, plumbers, or any other trade or profession, in that there are good 'uns and bad 'uns."

That's ABSOLUTELY right! I could tell you stories that some wouldn't believe about some I've had experience with; either personally OR family members. I'm convinced that I've known the absolute best and the absolute worst doctors, at least one of which lost his license and another who moved from town to town as the lawsuits piled up.

And yes, as a police captain, I learned the same is true of police officers.

 

[LouNY]

Day got off to a slower start than anticipated.

Got a quite high quote on LS MT125 for Sophie. Thousands more than expected. This is a new dealer, replacing the one 1 bought from. My guess from their main website is they are more a corporate supplier vs user/consumer.
By the time you add taxes, it is more than I paid for my XR4140.
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As I was sorting thru this my new neighbor called. Very talkative type. Had to tell him I had a bucket of grout calling me. Then I had to explain the grout

But I did get underway, will still need a final clean up.

Also decided that it would be beneficial for our son to inherit not just assets that have appreciated, but also assets that have been appreciated (by me and his Mom ). In keeping with that, I put a deposit on a UTV, Kawasaki Mule 4010 4x4.
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Dealer didn’t have an inbound yet, just posted to website by Kawasaki last night which probably means it is invoiced but not shipped. Decided to go kinda middle of the road, more utility. Dealer had told me to watch the website as they show up there first and tend to be sold by time they arrive. I’ll likely add a roof and windshield.

Those mules are very good utility vehicles, the two we have on the farm have been worked hard and have held up well.
They are not fast and they do not have to ride quality of the faster ones.
You will find every bump and hole were you drive it.
They are the hard working line for the Kawasaki's.
The other lines are better riding, faster and not as hard working..

 

[daugen]

Drew - $1350 poorer and with a swollen lip just happy to be home. Dentist visit done for a while I hope?

I wish. That was second one this year, I need one more and I told him next Spring.
I don't have dental insurance and the cost keeps climbing.

PJ, sorry your wife is sick, hope she feels better soon. My brother's wife has a "severe stomach virus" after visiting her small
grandchildren in Charleston SC.

got the lawn mowed and another three pounds of tomatoes picked.