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Good evening all. 56F for the start, clear sky, light wind, .4 inch in rain gauge. Light to moderate wind, sky stayed mostly clear, and high temp was 80F, DP 44F. Rain in the forecast for next 3 days, Wednesday forecast 1.75 inch. Turned irrigation off, may not need it for a while. Was suppose to have Choir practice this morning, only 6 people showed up, so Choir canceled until further notice :(. Did get a ride in, and a nap. Worked or should I say reworked on the incorrectly sharpen chain and on the right track, one more try and should be there.
Covid update: Cooke 4062 confirmed cases, 23 active cases, Montague 2529 confirmed cases, 35 active cases, Grayson, 15,814 confirmed cases, 227 active cases. Cooke 0, Montague 0, Grayson 0, new cases. Grayson number still don't add up
Roy maybe you need to be closer when your wife is trying to move.
Drew good luck with the truck, have fun with the lawn
Ron Glad you caught the end of the race. Nice pic
Buppies hope that warm temps helps you at work
Billy glad your son is getting more hikes in, hope wifey on same page. Hope you can get the faucet replaced
Phil nice pics, maples are bad for leaves
Mike very sorry to hear about new issue with elbow. prayers for healing
RNG sorry trip cut short, great view in the pic. nice you had a great ride home :)
Bill Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
Don Good luck with your projects
Paul glad trip uneventful. yes garages do have a mind of their own, and quite contrary.
Ken nice pics, nice last grass mowing done.
PJ nice pics sounds like avery enjoyable trip. Glad you got a good dinner for mowing.
David glad all is ok after quake. Have fun at Happy Hour
Dennis good for lawn to change direction :)
Drew nice haul.
Randy cute pic
Dennis Big boy is impressive, and even better when it is moving.
Dennis thanks for pic
RS plenty of room to plant now :)
Dennis glad brother is doing better so quickly. Stepdaughter had Covid, after only 1st vaccine, was sick fo week no hospital required.
Kyle nice violin. Cheap e strings break all the time.
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, Roy/ palpitations, angina wife/ankle 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/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery/Back issues, RNG/fire season, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Mike/elbow pain, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all
 
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Kyle. You might want to google about your new violin and loose pins. Should have saved the link, but apparently it can be an easy fix, but also suggested that you take a 50 yo violin to a proper shop as it just might be more valuable than you think.
 
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Coke is … “woke” ?

Who knew ?

 
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2021-10-12, 0341

50° right now...high inn the low 70's...

Wifey had a visitor yesterday...her sister whom I hadn't seen in 3-4 years. She'd (sister) lost a lot of weight...I'll wager 50+ pounds, at least. Didn't even recognize her at first.
So, Wife, stepdaughter and sister had a great gab fest while I was on a couple webinars for work. After the last webinar, I went out, got most of the mowing done...I'll finish this afternoon
 
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good morning all.
cloudy Fall day here with highs in low 70's.
Two projects for today, one getting a quote from body shop on fixing rust on truck and then trip
to church to do a little more grouting on the flagstone walkway.

I've been reading the book on Churchill, The Splendid and the Vile, about the first two years of WWII and the bombing
of England. Hard to imagine what it's like being bombed, stress level for Brits must have been off the charts, despite their
renowned reserve. Eric, have you read this book? I wonder what your parents experience was like.

Toppop, you did notice that's a Ford right?...Us Ram drivers try to keep it on the street. ;)

Chrysler dealer service told me the 8 speed trans in my truck had a sealed transmission and there was no need to change
the fluid. The internet says otherwise. In order to change the filter that it built in to the trans pan, a non removable filter btw, one has to
buy a whole new plastic pan to the trans with a new filter built in. There are other aftermarket pans with a removable filter but if this stuff is supposed to last
the life of the truck, I think one good flush should be enough, not planning on doing this again. Plastic pan is held on with numerous bolts torqued to 90 inch pounds, not very
much and shows it would be easy to crack the pan by overtightening. Unless it is an exceptional design and it really does not need servicing, I'm thinking this
is not smart engineering.

have a great day guys.
 
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Poured first cup of coffee. 66° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 70° with a mix of sun and clouds. PT went well. But lasted 1 1/2 hours. I took a nap when I got home. Went along fence line and pounded all the metal post straight. That was enough. No plans for today.
Crescent moon has been very bright in evening lately.
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Kyle, neat Violin. Maybe you can make into a Fiddle.

PJ, nice Kayak pictures.

RNG, great cycle picture.

I like the fall pictures being posted.

Everyone stay safe and healthy.

Good Morning All.
 
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63 high of 78 more drizzle early before 80s come visit

prayers for all
 
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Mostly, did you find out why so many folks didn't show up for choir?

big discussion on our church having Candelight Sing for Christmas, a tradition that started in
1941, as a way to cheer up the community I think. A dreadful time, Pearl Harbor sure did wreck that Christmas for many.
Discussion was on high hazards of singing, lot of choirs have gotten sick in last year and stopped.
We desperately want to sing again for Christmas, since we don't do it any other time of the year. I've been going to Christmas
Candelight Sing since I was a little boy. Something very special about singing Silent Night in a room lit only by hundreds of candles.
and who doesn't smile when Rudolph's red nose comes to town.

And yes, we have had local fire company sit in lot with fire truck just in case. They've been coming for over 30 years.
Ancient dry old wood and stone building with hundreds of lit candles, sure does get my attention. There's a thin line between
friend and foe for a lit candle that topples over. We are all very careful and keep the candles away from the kid's area.

this is where I wish we had Kyle's sophisticated hybrid system.

Our meetinghouse seats about 200 when full. It's standing room only on Christmas sing night, but Covid only allows about 65 people
as we currently have to provide enough spacing. Which is fine since only 35 people physically come on Sunday.
But if folks are singing in there, what then, 40 people only? Then we have more folks being
excluded than we have safely fitting in. Our hopes are the weather will be nice enough to have an outside sing like the carolers of old.
Without a hybrid system, folks who are worried about covid and gatherings get left out.
Kyle, do you do consulting?
 
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Ditto with Buppies weather report.

Azaleas are blooming again, as are some Iris in the yard. Very odd.

Last night in the back pasture while feeding the horses with the wife I noticed a sapling in the pasture moving back and forth. I told the wife it was a buck and ran back to the house. Sure enough, got back with the camera and the deer started coming out of the high grass...one, two, four, seven, ten.....all does and young ones. Then slowly one buck came out. Bah...young....then another...young too. We sat there for about ten minutes enjoying the grazing show and watching the bucks play my herd.

Then it was time to get back to work. The deer did not move when the wife fired up the RTV and we moved along to another pasture for more horse feeding. It was an interesting night though.

Need to rescue pics off the camera this AM. And set the game cams back on. My game cam sort of had a battery melt down. I guess a bad battery. It melted the plastic tray in the process. I contacted the manufacturer and they asked for the camera back. They promptly sent me a new one. Impressed at the follow up and customer service.

No work on the milk house. I will need to relocate all my tools and my wife says they are not coming into the house. I agree with her.

Hope all have a great day today. Be safe.
 
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Good Morning.
It’s 57 and supposed to get just past 70 today with overcast skies and slight chance of rain.

Yesteryday, I got the speaker ready for finishing. All the detail work is done. Spent a little time with grandson, and practiced with new TIG welder, figuring out what all the settings do.

Today I’m off to Newport News for a quick trip, hope to be done by lunchtime. Then, I’m really off for a couple of weeks. Hope to get back in shop when I get home, but wife has chores piling up for me. But that’s actually a good thing, it means that she is listening to her doctors and taking it easy on her back instead of always pushing the limits.
 

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