Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

50 high of 74 today heat on first time this year grass needs mowed leaves starting to rain down

Still have hacking cough very little comes out for some reason not sleeping well

Prayers for all

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
Yes Mostly, yesterday was a lot, maybe too much as I woke up tired.
Might pass on church this morning. Back hurts from uncomfortable chairs at my brother's home; great for regular backs,
not enough lower back support for us with bad backs. I should have asked for another pillow...

Mostly perhaps whispering to Mrs Santa about a GoPro will solve that. But I guess that's more weight on top of your head.

Phil, you don't work in the snow?

more coffee, today I have to finish cleaning the house for guests next week. These old friends from Delaware stayed in the guest stateroom on my big boat
quite a few times, they are used to small spaces. And since my guest bedroom now is decorated all in boat pics, they will have fun seeing the pic of my last boat in the
Chesapeake as we were entering Still Pond and the picture taking helicopter zoomed by. They are sitting up on the flybridge and I know they remember the moment.
This pic is blown up and framed to about a 2x3 foot size so you can look into it and really feel like one is there. I was just coming down off plane and slowing down.
Good memories. 46 Bertram, 16 beam, 25 tons, a wonderful old boat. In bad weather I'd be coming up the Cheasapeake heading for home at the far end of the Sassafras River
and I'd have five to ten small boats following me as I smoothed out the chop. I could only do 16 knots but in nasty weather, no one can go fast anyway.
35 gallons an hour simply became unaffordable. When I bought this boat diesel was .73 a gallon.

When you go from .5 mpg to 6-9mpg in a RV it seems ever so much more efficient...but nothing is like being out on the water.
There is a feeling of freedom that is hard to match.

Bill, hang on to that snow please. Good luck with hydraulics. I fussed with the ones on my Kubota and accomplished nothing.

 

[Thomas]

Well, it is going to be official..... after long deliberation and discussion over the last 2 weeks,..... I am going to retire. I wasn't planning on it, but there is no way that I can pass the physical agility/ strength tests in order to continue working as a paramedic. As of Dec 31st, I will relinquish my state and national license. It was a good run...... I still can't decide if I am happy or not....

Turn the page and start new chapter, retirement can be interesting at times.

 

[Thomas]

50 high of 74 today heat on first time this year grass needs mowed leaves starting to rain down

Still have hacking cough very little comes out for some reason not sleeping fight

Prayers for all

Mrs. convince yesterday afternoon to see doctor,seems I have infection in one lung that's making me cough etc. Mrs. will get meds today....hint hint on the lung check.

 

[Thomas]

29F clear sky low 50's for high.
Outside chores done E muffin time.

House roof and vehicle windshields are white also stone bird bath has ice, yep first frost this autumn.

Plans for today...Morning quick trip to town for critter food and meds,rest of the day some leaf clean up,later on watch some football nascar.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
39 outside, the going into the 60’s.

Yesterday was a lazy day. Put tools and parts away in the shop, did a little airplane maintenance with son and grandson. Did some work on song mix and rough mastering.

Today has me going to Hilton Head this morning, looks like a decent day for it. Not sure what I’ll get into when I get back.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-10-24, 0742

31° right now...high in the low 50's today.

Didn't get the haircut yesterday, but all the other chores are done....Oops, not quite...couldn't find any Rust-Oleum in Deere green. I'll stop by the local Deere dealer one day this week. I want to get a quote on adding 2 more rear remotes anyway (there's one remote now)

Mostly house sitting today and taking care of wife's needs

Beautiful boat, Drew!!! Never had any desire (or the money) to own one, but I can sure admire the lines of a nice boat

 

[daugen]

Fly safely Paul, 80 degrees in Hilton Head. The original marina with the candy striped lighthouse was my favorite place to dock going up and down the
Intracoastal. Expensive but a nice treat. We stayed in some pretty rustic marinas also so I had to keep the wife happy.

thanks Roy. An older style flybridge motor yacht, in the style of Chris Craft, Pacemaker, Uniflite, etc. I sold it thirteen years later for almost what I paid for it,
which was about a hundred grand and it went on to be a floating guest house for someone who lived near St. Michaels. Have no idea whatever happened to this boat,
which was our floating home for three years in South Florida. And the boat the two of us cruised over to the Abacos in.
You can buy these older yachts at very low prices today but the maintenance will truly eat you alive. I spent 21k to rebuild
just one of the two diesel engines. I think that's when my wife and I knew the end was near. A new version of this size boat costs over a million dollars new, so
buying something fairly old is all that is affordable. If someone was really handy like Popgadget, no problem. But if you have to write checks to repair yards for everything,
you had better have very deep pockets. When we both were working and making good incomes, without children, it made sense. And then it sure didn't.

 

[daugen]

Roy, are the additional remotes for something that tilts, like Top N Tilt?
You already have a rear snowblower so wondering what you are working on.
I never got very good using a hydraulically angled rear blade on the farm but it was fun trying, and I made
a few little waterways with it.

 

[toppop52]

Pretty day Saturday , a few clouds and a bit breezy but comfortable.

Floors are finished as of about five yesterday pm. Looks great. I’ll get some pics today. I was going to take some with most of the stuff out of the kitchen and dining areas but I forgot.

Pretty day today and 71 for a high expected.