Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

42F few clouds.

Out the door early this morning needed to clear 2 1/2" snow before leaving long day pt. job.
Most snow melted 2 robins bouncing on lawn with no snow.

Plans for the evening 0 nothing feet up.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[LouNY]

He/she will be back...hope there nothing in vehicles might be of interest.

I expect it was the same one that came by last fall,
I managed to straighten out and repair all those feeders.
Was able to salvage one single tube feeder today and put some out on a piece of plastic for today.
I think I bring the feeders inside for the next week or so at night.
He was trotting right along when he went past another camera I have on the edge of the lawn to catch the deer, turkey and early this spring a pair of foxes. That one doesn't have the light set to activate so all I could see was two eyes reflecting in the infared.

I get kind of mean at times, I'm tempted to hang the feeders high off my deck and put an electric fence up on the steps.
We don't have many of them around here yet, more then there used to be now.

I know the bee keepers fence in the hives with battery powered fencers to keep them out.

 

[Alien]

"I wonder about the adhesives they use on these granite counter tops, drill it first and a stainless steel pin?"

"
They have a special glue and fill in with mortar. That glue is amazingly strong.
Think 3 or four small steel pins would stop it from twisting over time.
Tile place will have the glue and anything else you need.

Seems like this would be a bit under $40"
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Missing piece polish front that looks like state of Fla. 4"x 1"...hoping that piece embedded driver radiator.

We just had a large granite counter top installed in our new kitchen. Two joins. Guys were very fussy. Special adhesive they mixed on the spot. About a 1 mm gap. They colored it to suit as they mixed it. No pins. It is rock hard and barely visible. I might put a pic up of the join later as I have a fair bit on today. Neighbour is coming to help me get the tractor unbogged later. Hope he doesn't get stuck too but we have lots of chain. Counter top is called Isa Rose. It is from Mount Isa in Queensland.

 

[daugen]

beautiful granite Doug. Just buy lots of cutting boards. I had a hard time keeping my wife from cutting things on it.
As you might imagine, I had to sharpen our knives a lot.

finance school board zoom meeting done, very interesting presentation by our investment advisors, Friends Fiduciary.
They provide a service that is very helpful because it offers a guaranteed payout based on a three year rolling average.
Currently 4 percent. So lots of treasurers of small churches and organizations can be assured of a budget-able income stream
each year. We still get the regular yield, currently averaging 10 percent long term, but they guarantee, and we can budget on, 4 percent.
No insurance or annuities involved, just conservative reserves.

There are long standing mutual funds used by Catholics that go through different eligibility screens. Faith in action. One thing for sure, going green ten years
ago has really paid off in investments. Energy used to be over ten percent of the S&P, now it's half that or less.
And we talked about green bonds, which you can guess their nature, and now there are blue bonds, a subsection of green. I even stumped the presenter
on that, got a chuckle from the head of the finance committee... Blue bonds deal with oceans, lakes and rivers and the water focus of ecology.

Life is usually best when balanced. My Colorado copper mines went up 35% this year. Strip mining on steroids.
But US workers got paid and were overseen by OSHA, not the horrors of third world countries. And our country sure needs copper.
I'm not too happy with India right now. They would not censure Putin. Follow the money.

money may not be the source of all evil but greed sure is pulling hard for top spot.

am reminded of the folk song words of "teach your children".

have a good evening.

 

[Wagtail]

Morning all! It's 15c here right now with an early morning low of 10c... overcast again. Not bad for late Summer/early Autumn.

Have a good one Mates!

 

[toppop52]

Went past the Royal Farms where I buy fuel, diesel was $5.25 gal. By the time I need fuel again it’ll probably be $6 or more.

 

[Looking4new]

Well I got my incometax paperwork sent off to the accountant. $13.21 registered mail. I always send it registered IF I don't deliver it in person. I can't drive the 60 miles each way for that money now. Gas here was $1.956/Litre ($7.39/US gallon).

Lou, how do you know your bear is a he, it might be a she.

check, glad your wifes' operation went O.K.

Although we had had some melting snow, I still cannot see the top of the drilled wellhead which is 24" above grade. We didn't get as much snow as we've had other winters. Not even close, but maybe I shouldn't count my chickens before they are hatched. Winter is not over yet. Not until Labour Day weekend.

 

[PJSprog]

We have a granite counter top in our kitchen, installed when we remodeled in 2017. Given the number of things we've broken on it in those 5 years ... including the pitcher for the blender just last weekend ... we'd likely never do that again. It looks fantastic. It's just 100% unforgiving.

Good to see you stopping in here, Wag.

I filled up this evening after work. Price dropped 25¢ since Monday to $4.349/gal.

Thomas, my Wife showed me a video about a week ago of a bear somewhere standing up and moving wind chimes just over his head, over and over, like he liked it.

 

[Alien]

Morning all! It's 15c here right now with an early morning low of 10c... overcast again. Not bad for late Summer/early Autumn.

Have a good one Mates!

I am still sleeping with just a sheet over me mate.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Taking tomorrow off. Going to look at some land, really a good deal, but more than I am comfortable spending right now.
Agent said 1 offer already so I might be too late anyways. Some restrictions, some outdated, like no man made Stone, has to be real stone. No bare concrete walls.

Land prices are skyrocketing also.

Spent evening catching up on quicken entering. Somewhere in my restructuring my balances got off on a couple accounts.

My long lost check to kubota finally cleared. Had to pay a late fee because of it, now I’m a few months ahead.

Work situation getting dicey, rumors of layoffs due to slow work.